Radical 179

Radical 179 or radical leek (韭部) meaning "leek" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.[1]

Radical 179 (U+2FB2)
(U+97ED) "leek"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jiǔ
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:chiu3
Cantonese Yale:gau2
Jyutping:gau2
Japanese Kana:キュウ kyū (on'yomi)
にら nira (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:구 gu
Hán-Việt:cửu
Names
Japanese name(s):韭/にら nira
Hangul:부추 buchu
Stroke order animation

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

is also the 181st 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
+4 (=韭)
+6
+7
+8
+10 (= -> )

References

  1. "Unihan data for U+97ED". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

Literature

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