Radical 111

Radical 111 or radical arrow (矢部) meaning "arrow" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

矢
Radical 111 (U+2F6E)
矢 (U+77E2) "arrow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shǐ
Bopomofo:ㄕˇ
Wade–Giles:shih3
Cantonese Yale:chi2
Jyutping:ci2
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
や ya (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:시 si
Names
Chinese name(s):矢字旁 shǐzìpáng
Japanese name(s):矢/や ya
矢偏/やへん yahen
Hangul:화살 hwasal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

矢 is also the 110th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0矢
+2矣
+3矤 知
+4矦 矧 矨
+5矩
+6矪 矫
+7矬 短
+8矮
+12矯 矰
+14矱
+15矲

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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