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Radical 169

Chinese character radical

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Radical 169 or radical gate (門部) meaning "gate" or "door" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 246 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

, the simplified form of , is the 47th 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 component.

01Evolution

Two doors (); unrelated to ("Yen") and .

Stroke order of the simplified form 门
Stroke order of the simplified form 门

02Derived characters

StrokesCharacters (門)Characters (门)
+0 SC (=門)
+1 SC (=閂)
+2 (=門) SC (=閃)
+3 (=閉) SC (=閆) (=閈) SC (=閉) SC (= -> ) SC (=闖)
+4 (= -> ) SC (=閏) SC (=闈) SC (=閒) SC (=閎) SC (=間) SC (=閔) SC (=閌) SC (= -> )
+5 (= -> ) (=閏) SC (=閘) SC (= -> )
+6 JP (=關) (= -> / -> ) SC (=閨) SC (= -> ) SC (=闥) SC (=閩) SC (=閭) SC (=闓) SC (=閥) SC (=閣) SC (=閡)
+7 JP/HK/GB TC (=閱) (=闡) SC (=閫) SC (= -> ) SC (=閱) SC (=閬)
+8 (= -> ) SC (=闍) SC (=閾) SC (=閹) SC (=閶) SC (= -> ) SC (=閿) SC (=閽) SC (=閻) SC (=閼) SC (=闡)
+9 (= -> ) SC (=闌) SC (=闃) SC (=闠) SC (=闊) SC (=闋)
+10 (=關) JP (= -> ) SC (=闔) SC (=闐) SC (=闒) SC (=闕)
+11 SC (=闞)
+12
+13 SC (=闤)
+14

03Sinogram

Alone it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second 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.
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