豸
Radical 153 (U+2F98)
豸 (U+8C78) "badger, legless insect"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhì
Bopomofo:ㄓˋ
Wade–Giles:chih4
Cantonese Yale:jaai6, ji6
Jyutping:zaai6, zi6
Japanese Kana:チ chi / タイ tai (on'yomi)
とける tokeru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:치 chi
Names
Japanese name(s):貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen
Hangul:발 없는 벌레
bal eomneun beolle
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Radical 153 or radical badger (豸部) meaning "badger" or "legless insect" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 140 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

豸 is also the 162nd 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豸
+3豹 豺 豻
+4豼 豽
+5豾 豿 貀 貁 貂 貃
+6貄 貅 貆 貇 貈 貉 貊
+7貋 (=豻) 貌 貍
+8貎 貏
+9貐 貑 貒 貓
+10貔 貕 貖
+11貗 貘 貙
+12貚
+18貛 (=獾 -> 犬)
+20貜

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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