Radical 56

Radical 56 or radical shoot (弋部) meaning "shoot" or "arrow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

弋
Radical 56 (U+2F37)
弋 (U+5F0B) "shoot, arrow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yì
Bopomofo:ㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:i4
Cantonese Yale:yihk
Jyutping:jik6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:e̍k
Japanese Kana:ヨク yoku (on'yomi)
いぐるみ igurumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:익 ik
Names
Japanese name(s):式構/しきがまえ shikigamae
Hangul:주살 jusal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

弋 is also the 35th 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弋
+1弌 (=一 -> 一, one)
+2弍 (=二 -> 二 / 貳 -> Radical , two)
+3弎 (=三 -> 一, three) 式 (type, ceremony, formula, etc.) 弐 (=貳 -> 貝)
+9弑SC/variant (=弒)
+10弒 (to murder one's sovereign or parents)

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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