Radical 179

Radical 179 meaning "leek" is 1 of 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 9 strokes.[1]

Radical 179 (U+2FB2)
(U+97ED) "leek"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jiǔ
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:chiu3
Cantonese Yale:gau2
Jyutping:gau2
Japanese Kana:キュー, にら kyū, nira
Sino-Korean:구 gu
Hán-Việt:cửu
Names
Japanese name(s):韭 nira
Hangul:부추 buchu
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 179

strokescharacter
without additional strokes
6 additional strokes
7 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
10 additional strokes

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: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • 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.

References

  1. "Unihan data for U+97ED". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
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