Radical 177

革
Radical 177 (U+2FB0)
革 (U+9769) "leather, rawhide"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:gé
Bopomofo:ㄍㄜˊ
Wade–Giles:ko2
Cantonese Yale:gaak3, gaap3
Jyutping:gaak3, gaap3
Japanese Kana:カク kaku (on'yomi)
かわ kawa / あらた-める arata-meru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:혁 hyeok
Hán-Việt:cách
Names
Japanese name(s):革偏/かわへん kawahen
Hangul:가죽 gajuk
Stroke order animation

Radical 177 or radical leather (革部) meaning "leather" or "rawhide" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 305 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

革 is also the 179th 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 革
+2 靪
+3 靫 靬 靭JP (=韌 -> 韋) 靮 靯 靰 靱 (=韌 -> 韋)
+4 靲 靳 靴 靵 靶 靷 靸 靹
+5 靺 靻 靼 靽 靾 靿 鞀 鞁 鞂 鞃 鞄 鞅 鞆
+6 鞇 鞈 鞉 (=鞀) 鞊 鞋 鞌 (=鞍) 鞍 鞎 鞏 鞐 鞑SC (=韃) 鞒SC (=鞽)
+7 鞓 鞔 鞕 鞖 鞗 鞘 鞙
+8 鞚 鞛 (=琫 -> 玉) 鞜 鞝 鞞 鞟 鞠 鞡
+9 鞢 鞣 鞤 鞥 鞦 鞧 鞨 鞩 鞪 鞫 鞬 鞭 鞮 鞯SC (=韉) 鞰 (=韞 -> 韋)
+10 鞱 鞲 鞳 鞴 鞵 (=鞋) 鞶 鞷
+11 鞸 鞹 鞺 鞻
+12 鞼 鞽 鞾 鞿
+13 韀 韁 韂 韃
+14 韄 韅
+15 韆 韇 韈 (=襪 -> 衣)
+17 韉
+21 韊

Sinogram

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.[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.