Radical 77

Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

止
Radical 77 (U+2F4C)
止 (U+6B62) "stop"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhǐ
Bopomofo:ㄓˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:jyy
Wade–Giles:chih3
Cantonese Yale:jí
Jyutping:zi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:chí
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
と-まる to-maru / と-める to-meru / や-める ya-meru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:지 ji
Names
Japanese name(s):止める/とめる tomeru
止偏/とめへん tomehen
Hangul:그칠 geuchil
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

止 is also the 73rd 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止
+1正
+2此
+3步
+4武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步)
+5歪 歫
+6歬 (=前 -> 刀) 歭
+8歮
+9歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲)
+10歴JP (=歷)
+11歵 歶
+12歷
+14歸

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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