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彳
Radical 60 (U+2F3B)
彳 (U+5F73) "step"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chì
Bopomofo:	ㄔˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	chyh
Wade–Giles:	chʻih4
Cantonese Yale:	chīk
Jyutping:	cik1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chhek
Japanese Kana:	テキ teki (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	척 cheok
Names
Chinese name(s):	雙人旁/双人旁 shuāngrénpáng
Japanese name(s):	行人偏/ぎょうにんべん gyōninben
Hangul:	걸을 georel
Stroke order animation

Radical 60 or radical step (彳部) meaning "step" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 215 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

彳 is also the 41st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

From 行; top component of 辵.

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	彳
+3	彴 彵
+4	彶 彷 彸 役 彺 彻SC (=徹)
+5	彼 彽 彾 彿 往 征 (also SC form of 徵) 徂 徃 径SC/径JP (=徑)
+6	待 徆 徇 很 徉 徊 律 後 徍
+7	徎 徏 徐 徑 徒 従JP (=從) 徔 徕SC (=徠)
+8	徖 得 徘 徙 徚 徛 徜 徝 從 徟 徠 御 徢 徣 (=借 -> 人)
+9	徤 徥 徦 徧 (=遍 -> 辵) 徨 復 循 徫 街
+10	徬 徭 微 徯 徰
+11	徱 徲 徳JP (=德) 徴JP (=徵)
+12	徵 徶 德 徸 徹 徺
+13	徻 徼
+14	徽 徾
+16	徿
+17	忀 忁
+18	忂

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+5F73