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Radical 74

Radical 74

Chinese character radical

Not to be confused with Radical 130, the "meat radical", where the side radical is written as ⺼.

Radical 74 or radical moon (月部) meaning "moon" or "month" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

Quick Facts 月, Pronunciations ...

In the Kangxi Dictionary. there are 69 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

月 is also the 88th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Character with the alternative form of Kangxi Radical 130 (⺼ "meat") is merged to this radical in Simplified Chinese, and no associated indexing component is left after the merger.

Evolution

Derived characters

More information Strokes, 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 first grade kanji[1]


References

  1. [1]
    "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.


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