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Radical 147

Chinese character radical

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Radical 147, also known as radical see (見部), represents the meaning "see" and is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (out of a total of 214 radicals) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 161 characters (out of 49,030) that can be found under this radical.

The simplified form of the character is written as and is the 78th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components primarily used in Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. The traditional form is listed as its associated indexing component. The simplified form of this radical character consists of 4 strokes.

01Evolution

(eye) + (kneeling); compare and ; unrelated to .

Stroke order of the simplified form 见
Stroke order of the simplified form 见

02Derived characters

StrokesCharacters (見)Characters (见)
+0 SC (=見)
+2 (=觀) (=覶 / -> ) SC (=觀)
+3 SC (=覎)
+4 (=覺) (=覓) SC (=規) SC (=覓)
+5 JP (=覺) SC (=覘) SC (=覽) SC (=覺)
+6 SC (=覬)
+7 SC (=覡)
+8 SC (=覿) (=覥)
+9 JP (=覽) (= -> ) SC (=覦)
+10 SC (=覯)
+11 (=觀) SC (=覲) SC (=覷)
+12
+13 (=覰)
+14 (=覶)
+15 覿
+18

03Sinogram

As an independent sinogram It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

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