穴
Radical 116 (U+2F73)
穴 (U+7A74) "cave"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xué
Bopomofo:ㄒㄩㄝˊ
Wade–Giles:hsüeh2
Cantonese Yale:yut6
Jyutping:jyut6
Japanese Kana:ケツ ketsu (on'yomi)
あな ana (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:혈 hyeol
Names
Chinese name(s):穴寶蓋/穴宝盖 xuébǎogài
穴字頭/穴字头 xuézìtóu
Japanese name(s):穴/あな ana
穴冠/あなかんむり anakanmuri
Hangul:구멍 gumeong
Stroke order animation

Radical 116 or radical cave (穴部) meaning "cave" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

穴 is also the 117th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0穴
+1穵
+2究 穷SC (=窮)
+3穸 穹 空 穻
+4穼 穽 (=阱 -> 阜) 穾 穿 窀 突 窂 (=牢 -> 牛) 窃SC (=竊)
+5窄 窅 窆 窇 窈 窉 窊 窋 窌 窍SC (=竅) 窎SC (=窵)
+6窏 窐 窑SC (=窯) 窒 窓JP (=窗) 窔 窕
+7窖 窗 窘 窙 窚 窛 窜SC (=竄) 窝SC (=窩)
+8窞 窟 窠 窡 窢 窣 窤 窥SC (=窺) 窦SC (=竇) 窧
+9窨 窩 窪 窫 窬 窭SC (=窶)
+10窮 窯 窰 (=窯) 窱 窲 窳 窴
+11窵 窶 窷 窸 窹 窺 窻 (=窗) 窼 窽
+12窾 窿 竀 竁 竂 (=寮 -> 宀) 竃 (=灶 -> 火)
+13竄 竅
+14竆 (=窮)
+15竇
+16竈 (=灶 -> 火) 竉
+17竊

Variant forms

This radical character takes different forms in different languages. In the Kangxi Dictionary, the first stroke is a vertical dot, and the last stroke of the radical character starts with a short horizontal line when appearing independently (穴), and becomes a vertical-curve-horizontal stroke ㇄ when used as an upper component, with an exception of 空 in which the radical's last stroke starts with a short horizontal line (穴+工). In Japanese and Korean hanja, when used as an upper component, the last stroke of the radical character is a vertical-curve-hook stroke ㇟. In Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, its last stroke is a vertical-curve-horizontal stroke ㇄. In Mainland China's xin zixing, it is a rightward dot.

Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Japanese Korean
穴 空 穴 空 穴 空 穴 空

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 fifth grade kanji.[1]



References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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