Radical 203

黑
Radical 203 (U+2FCA)
黑 (U+9ED1) "black"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	hēi
Bopomofo:	ㄏㄟ
Wade–Giles:	hei1
Cantonese Yale:	haak1, hak1
Jyutping:	haak1, hak1
Japanese Kana:	コク koku (on'yomi) くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	흑 heuk
Hán-Việt:	hắc
Names
Japanese name(s):	黒/くろ kuro
Hangul:	검을 geomeu
Stroke order animation

Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
• 
  Western Zhou Bronze script
• 
  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
• 
  Chu slip and silk script
• 
  Qin slip script
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	黑 黒JP (=黑)
+3	墨SC/TC/KO/墨JP 黓
+4	黔 黕 黖 黗 默
+5	黚 黛 黜 黝 點
+6	黟 黠 黡SC (=黶)
+7	黢 黣
+8	黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩SC (=黷) 黪SC (=黲)
+9	黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
+10	黰 黱
+11	黲 黳 黴
+13	黵
+14	黶
+15	黷
+16	黸

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/黑

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+9ED1