Radical 117

立
Radical 117 (U+2F74)
立 (U+7ACB) "stand, erect"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	lì
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:	li4
Cantonese Yale:	laap6
Jyutping:	laap6, lap6
Japanese Kana:	リュウ ryū / リツ ritsu (on'yomi) た-つ ta-tsu / た-てる ta-teru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	립 rip
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 立字旁 lìzìpáng (Top) 立字頭/立字头 lìzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	立/たつ tatsu (Left) 立偏/たつへん tatsuhen
Hangul:	설 seol
Stroke order animation

Radical 117 or radical stand (立部) meaning "stand" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 101 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

立 is also the 116th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

A person (大) on the ground; unrelated to 立 in 辛, 音 and 龍

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	立
+2	竌 竍
+3	竎 竏
+4	竐 竑 竒 (=奇 -> 大) 竓 竔 竕 竖SC (=豎 -> 豆) 竗
+5	竘 站 竚 (=佇 -> 人) 竛 竜Chiefly JP (=龍 -> 龍) 竝 (=並 -> 一) 竞SC (=競)
+6	竡
+7	竢 (=俟 -> 人) 竣 竤 (=竑) 童 竦 竧
+8	竨 竩 竪JP/GB TC (=豎 -> 豆) 竫 靖
+9	竬 竭 端 竰
+11	竮 竱
+12	竲 竳 竴
+13	竵 (=歪 -> 止)
+15	競 竷
+17	竸

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji and means to stand up.

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+7ACB