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Radical 82

Chinese character radical

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Radical 82 or radical fur (毛部) meaning "fur" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 211 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 82nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

The character is a Chinese family name, and often refers to the Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8 SC (=毿) SC (=𣯶)
+9
+10
+11毿
+12 SC (=氌)
+13
+14
+15
+18
+22

02Sinogram

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.

03Literature

  • 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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