Radical 48

Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

工
Radical 48 (U+2F2F)
工 (U+5DE5) "work"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:gōng
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄥ
Wade–Giles:kung1
Cantonese Yale:gūng
Jyutping:gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:kong
Japanese Kana:コウ kō (on'yomi)
たくみ takumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:공 gong
Names
Chinese name(s):工字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):工/こう kō
工/たくみ takumi
工偏/たくみへん takumihen
エ/え e
Hangul:장인 jang'in
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

工 is also the 28th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0工
+2左 巧 巨
+3巩 (also SC form of 鞏 -> Radical 177) 巪KO
+4巫
+6差SC variant
+7差TC/JP/KO variant
+9巯SC (=巰)
+10巰

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, 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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