殳
Radical 79 (U+2F4E)
殳 (U+6BB3) "weapon, lance"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shū
Bopomofo:ㄕㄨ
Wade–Giles:shu1
Cantonese Yale:syùh
Jyutping:syu4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:sû
Japanese Kana:シュ shu (on'yomi)
ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:수 su
Names
Japanese name(s):殳/ほこ hoko
殳旁/ほこづくり hokozukuri
ル又/るまた rumata
Hangul:칠 chil
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Radical 79 or radical weapon (殳部) meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

殳 is also the 92nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Yari iron

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0殳
+5殴SC/JP (=毆) 段 殶
+6殷 殸 殹 殺
+7殻JP/GB TC/variant (=殼)
+8殼 殽
+9殾 殿 毀 毁SC (=毀) 毂SC (=轂 -> 車)
+10毃 毄
+11毅 毆
+12毇 毈
+15毉
+19毊

Literature

  • 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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