Radical 96
Chinese character radical

Radical 96 or radical jade (玉部) meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into ⺩ consisting of four strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 473 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
The variant form of this radical, 王, is used as the 61st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form 玉, along with the left component variant ⺩, are listed as its associated indexing components.
01Evolution
玉 (jade)
Pictogram of cóng (琮). Historically very similar to 王.
王 (king)
主
Means "master". Oracle bone same as 示.

02Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 玉 玊 王 |
| +1 | 玌 玍 |
| +2 | 玎 玏 玐 玑SC (=璣) |
| +3 | 玒 玓 玔 玕 玖 玗 玘 玙SC (=璵) 玚SC (=瑒) 玛SC (=瑪) |
| +4 | 玜 玝 玞 玟 玠 玡 玢 玣 玤 玥 玦 玧 玨 玩 玪 玫 玬 玭 玮SC (=瑋) 环SC (=環) 现SC (=現) 玱SC (=瑲) |
| +5 | 玲SC/玲TC/玲JP 玳 玴 玵 玶 玷 玸 玹 玺SC (=璽) 玻 玼 玽 玾 玿 珀 珁 珂 珃 珄 珅 珆 珇 珈 珉 珊SC/珊TC/JP 珋 珌 珍 珎 珏 珐 珑SC (=瓏) |
| +6 | 珒 珓 珔 珕 珖 珗 珘 珙 珚 珛 珜 珝 珞 珟 珠 珡 珢 珣 珤 珥 珦 珧 珨 珩 珪 珫 珬 班 珮 珯 珰SC (=璫) 珱JP nonstandard (=瓔) 珲SC (=琿) 琤SC variant |
| +7 | 珳 珴 珵 珶 珷 珸 珹 珺 珻 珼 珽 現 珿 琀 琁 琂 球 琄 琅 理 琇 琈 琉 琊 琋 琌 琍 琎SC (=璡) 琏SC (=璉) 琐SC (=瑣) 琑 琒 琓 琷SC variant |
| +8 | 琔 琕 琖 琗 琘 琙 琚 琛 琜 琝 琞 琟 琠 琡 琢 琮 琯 琰 琱 琲 琳 琴 琺 琣 琤TC variant 琥 琦 琧 琨 琩 琪 琫 琬 琭 琵 琶 琷TC variant 琸 琹 (=琴) 琻 琼SC (=瓊) 瑛SC/JP variant |
| +9 | 琽 琾 琿 瑀 瑁 瑂 瑃 瑄 瑅 瑆 瑇 瑈 瑉 瑊 瑋 瑌 瑍 瑎 瑏 瑐 瑑 瑒 瑓 瑔 瑕 瑖 瑗 瑘 瑙 瑚 瑛TC variant 瑜 瑝 瑞 瑟 瑶SC (=瑤) 瑳SC variant 瑥SC/HK variant 瑵SC variant |
| +10 | 瑠 瑡 瑢 瑣 瑤 瑥TC variant 瑦 瑧 瑨SC/瑨TC/JP 瑩 瑪 瑫 瑬 瑭 瑮 瑯 瑰 瑱 瑲 瑳TC/JP variant 瑴 瑵TC variant 瑷SC (=璦) 瑸SC (=璸) 璍GB TC variant |
| +11 | 瑹 瑺 瑻 瑼 瑽 瑾 瑿 璀 璁 璂 璃 璄 璅 璆 璇 璈 璉 璊 璋 璌 璎SC (=瓔) 璓SC variant 璜SC variant |
| +12 | 璓TC variant 璍Traditional variant 璏 璐 璑 璒 璔 璕 璖 璗 璘 璙 璚 璛 璜TC variant 璝 璞 璟 璠 璡 璢 (=瑠) 璣 璤 |
| +13 | 璥 璦 璧 璨 璩 璪 璫 璬 璭 璮 璯 環 璱 璲 璳 璴 |
| +14 | 璵 璶 璷 璸 璹 璺 璻 璼 璽 璾 璿 瓀 瓁 瓂 |
| +15 | 瓃 瓄 瓅 瓆 瓇 瓈 瓉 瓊 瓋 |
| +16 | 瓌 瓍 瓎 瓏 瓐 瓑 瓒SC (=瓚) |
| +17 | 瓓 瓔 瓕 瓖 |
| +18 | 瓗 瓘 瓙 |
| +19 | 瓚 |
| +20 | 瓛 |
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 first grade kanji.
04Literature
- 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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