Radical 185

Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

首
Radical 185 (U+2FB8)
首 (U+9996) "head"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shǒu
Bopomofo:ㄕㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:shou3
Cantonese Yale:sau2
Jyutping:sau2
Japanese Kana:シュ shu / シュウ shū (on'yomi)
くび kubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:수 su
Hán-Việt:thủ, thú
Names
Japanese name(s):首/くび kubi
Hangul:머리 meori
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

首 is also the 187th 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首
+2馗
+8馘

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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