Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.^[1]

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

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.^[2] It is a first grade kanji.^[2]

The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.

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