Radical 122 or radical net (网部) meaning "net" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. Variant forms of this Kangxi radical include , , and .

← 121 Radical 122 (U+2F79) 123 →
(U+7F51) "net"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wǎng
Bopomofo:ㄨㄤˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:woang
Wade–Giles:wang3
Cantonese Yale:móhng
Jyutping:mong5
Japanese Kana:モウ mō / ボウ bō (on'yomi)
あみ ami (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:망 mang
Names
Chinese name(s):网字頭/网字头 wǎngzìtóu
(罒) 四字頭/四字头 sìzìtóu
Japanese name(s):網頭/あみがしら amigashira
(罒) 四頭/よんがしら yongashira
網目/あみめ amime
Hangul:그물 geumul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 163 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

, a variant form of this radical character, is the 107th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, is an ancient form of in modern Traditional Chinese and Japanese, and it is used as the simplified form of 網 in Simplified Chinese.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 SC (=)
+3 (= -> ) SC (=羅)
+4 (= -> / 𥥍 -> ) SC (=罰)
+5 SC (=罷)
+6 (= -> )
+7
+8
+9 SC (=羆)
+10 (=罰)
+11
+12 罿 SC (=羈)
+13
+14
+17
+19

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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