Radical 43

Radical 43 or radical lame (尢部) meaning "lame" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

尢
Radical 43 (U+2F2A)
尢 (U+5C22) "lame"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wāng
Bopomofo:ㄨㄤ
Wade–Giles:wang1
Cantonese Yale:wōng
Jyutping:wong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:ong
Japanese Kana:オウ ō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:왕 wang
Names
Chinese name(s):尤字旁 yóuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):曲足/まげあし mageashi
大の曲足/だいのまげあし dainomageashi
尢繞/おうにょう ōnyō
Hangul:절음발이 jeoreumbari
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

尢 is also the 34th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. 兀 and 尣 are the two associated indexing components affiliated to the principal indexing component 尢.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0尢 尣
+1尤
+3尥 尦
+4尨 尩 尪 尫 尬
+6尮 尯
+9尰 就
+10尲 尳 尴SC (=尷)
+12尵
+14尶 尷

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • 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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