Radical 77
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 77 | uni |
| meaning | stop |
| pny | zhǐ |
| bopo | ㄓˇ |
| gr | jyy |
| wade | chih3 |
| jyutping | zi2 |
| yale | jí |
| poj | chí |
| onyomi | シ shi |
| kunyomi | と-まる to-maru / と-める to-meru / や-める ya-meru |
| jp | 止める/とめる tomeru |
| 止偏/とめへん tomehen | |
| hang | 그칠 geuchil |
| hanja | 지 ji |
| :: |
|77|uni=6B62 |meaning=stop |pny= zhǐ |bopo= ㄓˇ |gr= jyy |wade= chih3 |jyutping= zi2 |yale= jí |poj= chí |cn= |onyomi= シ shi |kunyomi= と-まる to-maru / と-める to-meru / や-める ya-meru |jp= 止める/とめる tomeru 止偏/とめへん tomehen |hang= 그칠 geuchil |hanja= 지 ji
Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
止 is also the 73rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:止-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:止-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:止-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:止-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 止 |
| +1 | 正 |
| +2 | 此 |
| +3 | 步 |
| +4 | 武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步) |
| +5 | 歪 歫 |
| +6 | 歬 (=前 - 刀) 歭 |
| +8 | 歮 |
| +9 | 歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲) |
| +10 | 歴JP (=歷) |
| +11 | 歵 歶 |
| +12 | 歷 |
| +14 | 歸 |
| :: |
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 止 is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
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