Radical 70

Radical 70 or radical square (方部) meaning "square" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

Radical 70 (U+2F45)
(U+65B9) "square"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:fāng
Bopomofo:ㄈㄤ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:fang
Wade–Giles:fang1
Cantonese Yale:fōng
Jyutping:fong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:hong
Japanese Kana:ホウ hō (on'yomi)
かた kata (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:방 bang
Names
Chinese name(s):方字旁 fāngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):方偏/かたへん katahen
方偏/ほうへん hōhen
方/ほう hō
Hangul:모 mo
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 94th 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
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9 KO
+10
+12
+13
+14
+15
+16

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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