Radical 153

Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 153 | uni |
| meaning | badger, legless insect |
| pny | zhì |
| bopo | ㄓˋ |
| wade | chih4 |
| jyutping | zaai6, zi6 |
| yale | jaai6, ji6 |
| onyomi | チ chi / タイ tai |
| kunyomi | とける tokeru |
| jp | 貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen |
| hang | 발 없는 벌레 |
| bal eomneun beolle | |
| hanja | 치 chi |
| :: |
|153|uni=8C78 |meaning= badger, legless insect |pny= zhì |bopo= ㄓˋ |wade= chih4 |jyutping= zaai6, zi6 |yale= jaai6, ji6 |cn= |onyomi= チ chi / タイ tai |kunyomi= とける tokeru |jp= 貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen |hang= 발 없는 벌레 bal eomneun beolle |hanja= 치 chi
Radical 153 or radical badger (豸部) meaning "badger" or "legless insect" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 140 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
豸 is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:豸-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:豸-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:豸-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:豸-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 豸 |
| +3 | 豹 豺 豻 |
| +4 | 豼 豽 |
| +5 | 豾 豿 貀 貁 貂 貃 |
| +6 | 貄 貅 貆 貇 貈 貉 貊 |
| +7 | 貋 (=豻) 貌 貍 |
| +8 | 貎 貏 |
| +9 | 貐 貑 貒 貓 |
| +10 | 貔 貕 貖 |
| +11 | 貗 貘 貙 |
| +12 | 貚 |
| +18 | 貛 (=獾 - 犬) |
| +20 | 貜 |
| :: |
Literature
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