Radical 43

← 42 Radical 43 (U+2F2A) 44 →
(U+5C22) "lame"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wāng
Bopomofo:ㄨㄤ
Wade–Giles:wang1
Cantonese Yale:wōng
Jyutping:wong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:ong
Japanese Kana:オウ ō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:왕 wang
Names
Chinese name(s):尤字旁 yóuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):曲足/まげあし mageashi
大の曲足/だいのまげあし dainomageashi
尢繞/おうにょう ōnyō
Hangul:절음발이 jeoreumbari
Stroke order animation

Radical 43 or radical lame (尢部) meaning "lame" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 34th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. and are the two associated indexing components affiliated to the principal indexing component .

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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