鬲
Radical 193 (U+2FC0)
鬲 (U+9B32) "cauldron, tripod"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lì
Bopomofo:ㄌㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:li4
Cantonese Yale:gaak3, lik6
Jyutping:gaak3, lik6
Japanese Kana:レキ reki (on'yomi)
かなえ kanae (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:력 ryeok
Hán-Việt:cách
Names
Japanese name(s):鬲/かなえ kanae
Hangul:다리 굽은 솥 dari gubeun sot
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Radical 193 or radical cauldron (鬲部) meaning "cauldron" or "tripod" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 73 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

鬲 is also the 189th 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鬲
+6鬳
+7鬴
+8鬵 鬶SC (=鬹)
+9鬷
+10鬸
+11鬹 鬺
+12鬻

Variant forms

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

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