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Radical 159

Chinese character radical

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Radical 159 or radical cart (車部) meaning "cart" or "car" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 361 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

, the simplified form of , is the 68th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing components. is derived from the cursive form of .

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters (車)Characters (车)
+0 SC (=車)
+1 SC (=軋)
+2 SC (=軌)
+3 (=轊) SC (=軒) SC (=軑) SC (=軔)
+4 JP (=轉) JP nonstandard (=轟) SC (=轉) SC (=軛) SC (=輪) SC (=軟) SC (=轟)
+5 (=軛) JP (=輕; also variant form of 輊) SC (=軲) SC (=軻) SC (=轤) SC (=軸) SC (=軹) SC (=軼) SC (=軤) SC (=軫) SC (=轢) SC (=軺) SC (=輕)
+6 軿 JP (=輛) SC (=軾) SC (=載) SC (=輊) 轿SC (=轎) SC (=輈) SC (=輇) SC (=輅) SC (=較)
+7 SC (=輒) SC (=輔) SC (=輛)
+8 (=輒) SC (=輦) SC (=輩) SC (=輝) SC (=輥) SC (=輞) SC (=輬) SC (=輟) SC (=輜)
+9 (=軟) (=輜) HK/GB TC (=轀) SC (=輳) SC (=輻) SC (=輯) SC (=轀) SC (=輸) SC (=轡)
+10 (=軬) 輿 SC (=轅) SC (=轄) SC (=輾)
+11 SC (=轆)
+12 SC (=轍) SC (=轔)
+13
+14
+15
+16
+20
Stroke order of the simplified form 车
Stroke order of the simplified form 车

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 first grade kanji.

Stroke order of the simplified left component form 车
Stroke order of the simplified left component form 车

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.
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