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Radical 64

Chinese character radical

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Radical 64 or radical hand (手部) meaning "hand" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

When appearing as a left-side component, this radical is almost always written as (notable exceptions: , although Japanese shinjitai analogizes it to ; and dialectal characters 掰, 搿), while it becomes a vertically compressed 手 when appearing as a bottom component.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1203 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 80th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

01Evolution

Compare , , , and ; Unrelated to which is from .

Compare ; unrelated to katakana which is from .

Stroke order of the left component form 扌
Stroke order of the left component form 扌

02Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 Component only
+1
+2 (also SC form of 撲) JP (=拂)
+3 SC (= -> ) SC (=擴) SC (=捫) SC (=掃) SC (=揚)
+4 SC (=擾) (= -> ) SC (=撫) SC (=拋) JP (=拔) JP (=擇) SC (=摶) SC (=摳) SC (=掄) SC (=搶) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC variant
+5 SC/JP (=擔) SC/TC TC/JP variant SC/TC JP (=拜) SC (=擬) JP (=據) JP (=擴) SC (=攏) SC (=揀) SC (=擁) SC (=攔) SC (=擰) SC (=撥) SC (=擇)
+6 JP (=舉) SC (=摯) SC (=攣) SC (=掗) SC (=撾) SC (=撻) SC/JP (=挾) SC (=撓) SC (=擋) SC (=撟) SC (=掙) SC (=擠) SC (=揮) SC (=撏)
+7 JP (=插) SC (=挩) SC (=撈) SC (=損) SC (=撿) SC (=換) SC (=搗)
+8 TC/JP (= -> ) SC/JP variant JP (=揭) SC (=擄) SC/JP (=摑) JP (=捷) SC (=擲) SC (=撣) SC (=摻) JP (=搔) SC (=摜) (= -> ) SC variant SC/JP variant
+9TC variant TC variant TC variant (=捏) (=插) JP (=搖) SC (=攬) SC/HK (=搵) SC (=撳) SC (=攙) SC (=擱) SC (=摟) SC (=揯) SC (=攪) SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+10 TC variant TC variant TC variant SC/TC TC variant TC variant TC variant SC/JP (=攜) TC variant JP/variant (= -> ) JP (=攝) SC (=攝) SC (=攄) SC (=擺) SC (=搖) SC (=擯) SC (=攤) SC/JP variant GB TC variant SC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+11TC variant Traditional variant TC variant Traditional variant TC variant JP (=擊) SC (=攖) GB TC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+12SC variant SC/variant (=撐) TC variant TC variant (=操) TC variant Traditional variant SC (=擷) SC (=擼) JP (=攪) SC (=攛) GB TC variant SC/JP variant SC variant TC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+13Traditional variant Traditional variant TC variant TC variant (=攜) TC variant TC variant TC variant SC (=㩵) (=掹) SC (=擻)
+14 (=舉) GB TC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+15 Traditional variant TC variant TC variant TC variant JP nonstandard (=攢)
+16 SC (=攢)
+17
+18
+19 (=摛)
+20
+21
+22

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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