Radical 69

Radical 69 (U+2F44)
(U+65A4) "axe"
Pinyin: jīn
Bopomofo: ㄐㄧㄣ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
Wade–Giles: chin1
Cantonese Yale: gān
Jyutping: gan1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kun
Kana: キン, おの kin, ono
Kanji: 斧 ono
Hangul: 도끼 dokki
Sino-Korean: 근 geun
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Radical 69 meaning "axe" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes. It is also the symbol of the catty, a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 69

strokescharacter
without additional strokes
1 additional stroke
4 additional strokes斦 斧 斨 斩
5 additional strokes斪 斫
7 additional strokes斬 断
8 additional strokes斮 斯
9 additional strokes新 斱
10 additional strokes
11 additional strokes
12 additional strokes
13 additional strokes斵 斶
14 additional strokes
21 additional strokes

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, 1987: 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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