Radical 114 or radical track (禸部) meaning "rump" or "track" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 12 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
禸 is not listed in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components, hence not used as a Simplified Chinese radical (indexing component).
Evolution
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 禸 |
| +4 | 禹 禺 |
| +6 | 离 (also SC form of 離 -> 隹) |
| +7 | 禼 |
| +8 | 禽 |
Variant forms
The radical character as an independent Chinese character takes different forms in different languages.
| Trad. Chinese (Taiwan) | Simp. Chinese | Japanese | Korean |
|---|---|---|---|
| 禸 | 禸 | 禸 | 禸 |
When used as a component, its form depends on not only languages but also characters.
| Trad. Chinese (Taiwan) | Simp. Chinese | Japanese | Korean |
|---|---|---|---|
| 禺 离 | 禺 离 | 禺 离 | 禺 离 |
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.