Radical 185
Chinese character radical
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Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
| 首 | |
|---|---|
Radical 185 (U+2FB8)
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| 首 (U+9996) "head" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | shǒu |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄡˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | shou3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | sau2 |
| Jyutping: | sau2 |
| Japanese Kana: | シュ shu / シュウ shū (on'yomi) くび kubi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 수 su |
| Hán-Việt: | thủ, thú |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 首/くび kubi |
| Hangul: | 머리 meori |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
首 is also the 187th 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
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 second grade kanji.[1]
