Radical 47

巛
Radical 47 (U+2F2E)
巛 (U+5DDB) "river"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chuān
Bopomofo:	ㄔㄨㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	chuan
Wade–Giles:	chʻuan1
Cantonese Yale:	chyūn
Jyutping:	cyun1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chhoan
Japanese Kana:	セン sen (on'yomi) かわ kawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	천 cheon
Names
Chinese name(s):	三拐 sānguǎi
Japanese name(s):	川/かわ kawa 曲がり川/まがりがわ magarigawa 曲げ川/まげかわ magekawa 三本川/さんぼんがわ sanbongawa
Hangul:	내 nae
Stroke order animation

Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

巛 is also the 60th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Compare 水; unrelated to 彡 and 爪.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Warring States period bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

州

Islet in a river.

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  Oracle bone script
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  Bronze script
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  Warring States period bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	巛 巜 川
+3	州 巟 巠 巡
+8	巢 巣JP (=巢)
+12	巤

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+5DDB