Radical 177
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 177 | uni |
| meaning | leather, rawhide |
| pny | gé |
| bopo | ㄍㄜˊ |
| wade | ko2 |
| jyutping | gaak3, gaap3 |
| yale | gaak3, gaap3 |
| onyomi | カク kaku |
| kunyomi | かわ kawa / あらた-める arata-meru |
| jp | 革偏/かわへん kawahen |
| hang | 가죽 gajuk |
| hanja | 혁 hyeok |
| hanviet | cách |
| :: |
|177|uni=9769 |meaning= leather, rawhide |pny= gé |bopo= ㄍㄜˊ |wade= ko2 |jyutping= gaak3, gaap3 |yale= gaak3, gaap3 |cn= |onyomi= カク kaku |kunyomi= かわ kawa / あらた-める arata-meru |jp= 革偏/かわへん kawahen |hang= 가죽 gajuk |hanja= 혁 hyeok |hanviet= cách
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
File:革-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| 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. It is a fifth grade kanji.
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Literature
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