Radical 185

Radical 185 meaning "head" is 1 of 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 9 strokes.

Radical 185 (U+2FB8)
(U+9996) "head"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shǒu
Bopomofo:ㄕㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:shou3
Cantonese Yale:sau2
Jyutping:sau2
Japanese Kana:シュー, シュ shū, shu
くび kubi
Sino-Korean:수 su
Hán-Việt:thủ, thú
Names
Japanese name(s):首 kubi
Hangul:머리 meori
Stroke order animation

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

Characters with Radical 185

seal script character
strokescharacter
without additional strokes
2 additional strokes
8 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.
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