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Radical 118

Chinese character radical

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Radical 118 or radical bamboo (竹部) meaning "bamboo" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. The radical character usually appears at the top of characters and transforms into 𥫗.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, 953 characters (out of 49,030) are found under this radical.

is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𥫗 being its associated indexing component.

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 𥫗Component
+2
+3 (=篪) 竿 SC (=篤)
+4 (=籍) SC (=筍) SC (=筆) SC (=筧)
+5 (= -> ) (= -> ) (= / -> 策) (=範) SC (=箋) SC (=籠) SC (=籩)
+6 笿 (=篪) (=築) SC (=篳) SC (=篩) SC (=簹) SC (=箏)
+7 (=策) (=筒) (=箸) SC (=籌) SC (=篔) SC (=簽/籤) 筿 (=篠) SC (=簡)
+8 (=篦) (= -> ) (=篪) (= -> ) SC (=籙) (= -> ) (= -> ) SC (=簀) SC (=篋) SC (=籜) SC (=籮) SC (=簞) SC (=簫)
+9 (= -> ) (=簫) 箿 SC (=簣) SC (=簍)
+10 (=箬) JP (=籠) SC (=籃) SC (=籛) (= -> )
+11 SC (=籬) (=笛) (= -> / -> / -> ) 篿 (=筘) (=箳) (=篡) SC (=籪)
+12 (=簫) (=簁) (=簪)
+13 (= -> ) 簿 SC (=籟)
+14
+15 (= -> / -> )
+16 (=籐) (=籯)
+17 (= -> )
+18
+19 (=簁)
+20
+24
+26

02Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 竹 is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It means bamboo or the middle of a 3-tier ranking system.

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