Radical 129

聿
Radical 129 (U+2F80)
聿 (U+807F) "brush"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yù
Bopomofo:	ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yuh
Wade–Giles:	yü4
Cantonese Yale:	waht
Jyutping:	wat6
Japanese Kana:	イツ itsu / イチ ichi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	율 yul
Names
Japanese name(s):	筆旁/ふでづくり fudezukuri
Hangul:	붓 but
Stroke order animation

Radical 129 or radical brush (聿部) meaning "brush" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

聿 is also the 145th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 肀 and ⺻ being its associated indexing components.

Evolution

A hand (又) holding a brush (𰀁).

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	聿 肀
+4	肁 肂 肃SC (=肅)
+5	粛JP (=肅)
+7	肄 肅 肆
+8	肇 肈 (=肇)

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+807F