Radical 135

Radical 135 or radical tongue (舌部) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

舌
Radical 135 (U+2F86)
舌 (U+820C) "tongue"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shé
Bopomofo:ㄕㄜˊ
Wade–Giles:she2
Cantonese Yale:sit6
Jyutping:sit6, sit3
Japanese Kana:セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi)
した shita (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:설 seol
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng
Japanese name(s):舌/した shita
Hangul:혀 hyeo
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

舌 is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

StrokesCharacters
+0舌
+2舍 舎JP (=舍) 舏
+4舐
+5舑
+6舒
+8舓 (=舐) 舔 舕
+9舖 (=鋪 -> 金) 舗
+10舘 (=館 -> 食)
+12舙 (=話 -> 言 / 咠 -> 口)
+13舚

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.

Kangxi Dictionary
Modern Trad. Chinese
Simp. Chinese
Japanese
Korean
舌 舌

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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