Radical 173
| 雨 | ||
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| 雨 (U+96E8) "rain" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yǔ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄩˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | yü3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yu5 | |
| Jyutping: | jyu5, jyu6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ウ u (on'yomi) あめ ame (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 우 u | |
| Hán-Việt: | vũ | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 雨冠/あめかんむり amekanmuri[1] | |
| Hangul: | 비 bi | |
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Radical 173 or radical rain (雨部) meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into ⻗ when used as an upper component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
雨 is also the 170th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the component form ⻗ listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 雨 |
| +3 | 雩 雪 雫 |
| +4 | 雬 雭 雮 雯 雰 雱 雲 雳SC (=靂) |
| +5 | 雴 雵 零 雷 雸 雹 雺 電 雼 雽 雾SC (=霧) |
| +6 | 雿 需 霁SC (=霽) |
| +7 | 霂 霃 霄 霅 霆 震 霈 霉SC (also SC form of 黴 -> 黑) 霊JP (=靈) |
| +8 | 霋 霌 霍 霎 霏 霐 霑 霒 (=
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