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For the six-stroke radical "and" (而), see Radical 126.

又
Radical 29 (U+2F1C)
又 (U+53C8) "right hand"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yòu
Bopomofo:	ㄧㄡˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yow
Wade–Giles:	yu4
Cantonese Yale:	yauh
Jyutping:	jau6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	iū
Japanese Kana:	ユウ yū (on'yomi) また mata (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	우 u
Names
Chinese name(s):	又字旁 yòuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	又/また mata
Hangul:	또 tto
Stroke order animation

Radical 29 or radical again (又部) meaning "and", "again" or "right hand" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 91 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

又 is also the 24th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

The radical character 又's ancient form is a pictogram of a right hand from which the modern Chinese character 右 (right) was derived. Though 又 (again) as a modern Chinese character no longer represents the meaning of "right", the implication of "hand" is preserved in some Chinese characters that fall under radical 29.

Compare 力, 九, 彐, 爪 and 手; unrelated to 夂, 夊 and 文. Component of 寸, 支, 攴-攵, 殳, 父, and 皮. Sometimes written as 彐 such as in 雪 and 尹.

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	又
+1	叉
+2	及 友 双SC/JP (=雙 -> 隹) 反 収JP (=收 -> 攴)
+3	叏 叐
+4	发SC (=發 -> 癶 / 髮 -> 髟) 叒
+5	叓
+6	叔 叕 取 受 变SC (=變 -> 言)
+7	叙SC/JP/variant (=敘/敍 -> 攴) 叚 叛 叜 叝
+8	叞 叟
+11	叠SC (=疊 -> 田)
+14	叡
+16	叢

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.

See also

• List of jōyō kanji

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+53C8