Radical 179

Radical 179 (U+2FB2)
(U+97ED) "leek"
Pinyin: jiǔ
Bopomofo: ㄐㄧㄡ
Wade–Giles: chiu3
Jyutping: gau2
Cantonese Yale: gau2
Hiragana: キュウ, にら kyū, nira
Kanji: 韭 nira
Hangul: 부추 buchu
Sino-Korean: 구 gu
Stroke order animation

Radical 179 meaning "leek" is 1 of 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 9 strokes.[1]

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 179

strokes character
without additional strokes
6 additional strokes
7 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
10 additional strokes

Literature

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 179.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/12/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.