Radical 141

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← 140 Radical 141 (U+2F8C) 142 →
(U+864D) "tiger"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄏㄨ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:hu
Wade–Giles:hu1
Cantonese Yale:fu2
Jyutping:fu2, fu1
Japanese Kana:コ ko (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:호 ho
Names
Chinese name(s):虎字頭/虎字头 hǔzìtóu
Japanese name(s):虎頭/とらがしら toragashira
虎冠/とらかんむり torakanmuri
Hangul:호피무늬 hopi muneui
Stroke order animation
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Radical 141 or radical tiger (虍部) meaning "tiger" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 114 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 130th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

Evolution[]

Derived characters[]

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC (=虜)
+3
+4 SC (= -> )
+5 (= -> / -> 丿) (=虛) SC/JP (=虛)
+6 (=虎)
+7
+8
+9
+10
+11
+12
+20

Literature[]

  • 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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