Radical 87

Radical 87 (U+2F56)
(U+722A) "claw"
Pinyin: zhǎo
Bopomofo: ㄓㄠˇ
Wade–Giles: chao3
Cantonese Yale: jáau
Jyutping: zaau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiáu
Kana: ソ-, つめ sō, tsume
Kanji: 爪 tsume
Hangul: 손톱 sontop
Sino-Korean: 조 cho
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Radical 87 meaning "claw", "nail" or "talon" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 36 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 87

strokescharacter
without additional strokes爪 爫
4 additional strokes爬 爭
5 additional strokes爮 爯 爰
6 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
10 additional strokes
11 additional strokes
14 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: 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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