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黹
Radical 204 (U+2FCB)
黹 (U+9EF9) "embroidery, needlework"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zhǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄓˇ
Wade–Giles:	chih3
Cantonese Yale:	ji2
Jyutping:	zi2
Japanese Kana:	チ chi ぬいとり nuitori
Sino-Korean:	치 chi
Hán-Việt:	chỉ
Names
Japanese name(s):	黹偏 futsuhen (ふつへん)
Hangul:	바느질할치 baneujilhal
Stroke order animation

Radical 204 or radical embroidery (黹部) meaning "embroidery" or "needlework" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 12 strokes.

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

Evolution

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
• 
  Western Zhou Bronze script
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Characters with Radical 204

Strokes	Characters
+0	黹
+4	黺
+5	黻
+7	黼

Main article: wikt:Wiktionary:Chinese radical index 黹

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+9EF9