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←  77 Radical 78 ( U+2F4D) 79 →
(U+6B79) "death, decay"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dǎi
Bopomofo:ㄉㄞˇ
Wade–Giles:tai3
Cantonese Yale:dáai
Jyutping:aat3 daai2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:tái
Japanese Kana:ガツ gatsu ( on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:알 al
Names
Chinese name(s):歹字旁 dǎizìpáng
Japanese name(s):かばねへん kabanehen
歹/がつ gatsu
歹偏/がつへん gatsuhen
死構/しにがまえ shinigamae
一タ偏/いちたへん ichitahen
一夕偏/いっせきへん ichisekihen
Hangul:뼈앙상할
ppyeo angsanghal
Stroke order animation

Radical 78 or radical death (歹部) meaning " death", " decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 67th 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.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3 SC (=殲)
+4 歿 SC (=歿)
+5 SC (=殤)
+6 SC/ JP (=殘)
+7 SC (=殞) SC (=殮)
+8 SC/TC/ Kangxi/JP/KO SC (=殫)
+9
+10 SC (=殯)
+11
+12
+13
+14
+15 (=殲)
+17

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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