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←  147 Radical 148 ( U+2F93) 149 →
(U+89D2) "horn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jiǎo
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧㄠˇ
Wade–Giles:chiao3
Cantonese Yale:gok, luhk
Jyutping:gok3, luk6
Japanese Kana:カク kaku ( on'yomi)
つの tsuno / かど kado ( kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:각 gak
Names
Japanese name(s):角/つの tsuno
角偏/つのへん/かくへん tsunohen/kakuhen
Hangul:뿔 ppul
Stroke order animation

Radical 148 or radical horn (角部) meaning " horn" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 158 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 165th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 (= -> / -> )
+4 (= -> )
+5 SC (=觴)
+6 SC/JP (=觸) (=解 / -> )
+7
+8 SC (=觶)
+9
+10
+11
+12
+13
+14
+15
+16
+18 觿

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages.

Sinogram

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. [1] It is a second grade kanji [1]


References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.

See also