Radical 152

豕
Radical 152 (U+2F97)
豕 (U+8C55) "pig"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shǐ
Bopomofo:ㄕˇ
Wade–Giles:shih3
Cantonese Yale:chi2
Jyutping:ci2
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
ぶた buta / いのこ inoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:시 si
Names
Japanese name(s):豕/いのこ inoko
豕偏/いのこへん inokohen
Hangul:돼지 dwaeji
Stroke order animation

Radical 152 or radical pig (豕部) meaning "pig" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 148 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

豕 is also the 155th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 豕
+1 豖
+3 豗
+4 豘 (=豚) 豙 豚 豛 豜 豝
+5 豞 豟 豠 象
+6 豢 豣 (=豜) 豤 豥 豦
+7 豧 豨 豩 豪
+9 豫 豬 豭 豮SC (=豶)
+10 豯 豰 豱 豲 豳
+11 豴 豵
+12 豷
+13 豶

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.