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Radical 207

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Radical 207 meaning "drum" (鼓部) is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

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鼓
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Radical 207 (U+2FCE)
208 →
鼓 (U+9F13) "drum"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:gǔ
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:ku3
Cantonese Yale:gu2
Jyutping:gu2
Japanese Kana:コ, ク ko, ku
つづみ tsuzumi
Sino-Korean:고 go
Hán-Việt:cổ
Names
Japanese name(s):鼓 tsuzumi
Hangul:북 buk
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In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

Ideogrammic compound: 壴 ("drum") + 支 ("hand holding drumstick").

壴

Kangxi dictionary listed 壴 under 士+6. Compare 豆.

Characters with Radical 207

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strokescharacter
+0鼓 鼔
+5鼕 鼖
+6鼗
+8鼘 鼙 鼚 鼛
+10鼜
+11鼝 鼞
+12鼟
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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.

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