Radical 134 (U+2F85)
(U+81FC) "mortar, joint"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jiù
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧㄡˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:jiow
Wade–Giles:chiu4
Cantonese Yale:káuh, kau
Jyutping:kau5, kau3
Japanese Kana:キュウ kyū (on'yomi)
うす usu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:구 gu
Names
Japanese name(s):臼/うす usu
Hangul:절구 jeolgu
Stroke order animation

Radical 134 or radical mortar (臼部) meaning "mortar" or "joint" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 71 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 136th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𦥑 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 𦥑
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6 (=舄)
+7
+8
+9
+10SC (=輿 -> )
+12
+13 (= -> )

Literature

  • 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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