Radical 111
Chinese character radical
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Radical 111 or radical arrow (矢部) meaning "arrow" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
| 矢 | |
|---|---|
Radical 111 (U+2F6E)
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| 矢 (U+77E2) "arrow" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | shǐ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | shih3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | chi2 |
| Jyutping: | ci2 |
| Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) や ya (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 시 si |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 矢字旁 shǐzìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 矢/や ya 矢偏/やへん yahen |
| Hangul: | 화살 hwasal |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
矢 is also the 110th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 矢 is a Chinese character that means arrow. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is taught in second grade.
