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Radical 124

Chinese character radical

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Radical 124 or radical feather (羽部) meaning "feather" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 220 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 147th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+3 羿
+4 (=翅) (=翠)
+5
+6 SC (=翹) SC (=翽) SC (=翬)
+7
+8
+9
+10
+11 (=翱)
+12 (=翱)
+13
+14翿 耀

02Variant forms

Traditionally, this radical character is printed as and written as .

In modern Chinese, both the standard printing form and writing form of this character have been altered to , though the more traditional printing form is still seen in some Traditional Chinese publication.

In modern Japanese, the Kangxi form (old form) and the written form (new form) are encoded separately in JIS and Unihan (New : U+7FBD; Old : U+FA1E). The new form is used in jōyō kanji while the old form is used in hyōgai kanji, with the exception that in , 耀 and , the component is replaced by ヨヨ.

Kangxi Dict.
Korean
Japanese Simp. Chinese Trad. Chinese

03Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.

04Literature

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