Radical 171 or radical slave (隶部) meaning "slave" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

← 170 Radical 171 (U+2FAA) 172 →
(U+96B6) "slave"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄌㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:li4
Cantonese Yale:dai6
Jyutping:dai6
Japanese Kana:タイ tai (on'yomi)
およ-ぶ oyo-bu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:이 i, 대 dae, 례 rye, 예 ye
Hán-Việt:đãi, lệ
Names
Japanese name(s):隷旁/れいづくり reizukuri
Hangul:미칠 michil; 종 jong
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 12 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 178th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

is the original form of . It is also used as the simplified form of in Simplified Chinese.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 (also SC form of 隸)
+8 JP (=隸)
+9

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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