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攴
Radical 66 (U+2F41)
攴 (U+6534) "tap"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	pū
Bopomofo:	ㄆㄨ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	pu
Wade–Giles:	pʻu1
Cantonese Yale:	pok
Jyutping:	pok3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	phok
Japanese Kana:	ホク hoku (on'yomi) うつ utsu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	복 bok
Names
Chinese name(s):	(攵) 反文旁 fǎnwénpáng (攴) 缺支 quēzhī
Japanese name(s):	攴旁/ぼくづくり bokuzukuri 攴繞/ぼくにょう bokunyō ぼんにょう bonnyō ノ文/のぶん nobun 支文/しぶん shibun ト又/とまた tomata
Hangul:	칠 chil
Stroke order animation

Radical 66 or radical tap (攴部) meaning "Tap (valve)" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. It is also used to represent a folding chair.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 296 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

攴 is also the 74th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 攵 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

A hand (又) holding a tool (卜), similar to 支, 殳, 父, and 皮; unrelated to 夂 and 夊.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	攴 攵
+2	收 攷 (=考 -> 老)
+3	攸 改 攺 (=改) 攻 攼
+4	攽 放 敌SC (=敵)
+5	政 敀 敁 敂 敃 敄 故
+6	敆 敇 效 敉 敊 敋 敏JP 敖SC variant
+7	敍HK (=敘) 敎Kangxi/KO (=教) 敏SC/TC/KO 敐 救 敒 敓 敔 敕 敖TC variant 敗 敘 教 敚SC (=敓) 敛SC (=斂) 敢SC variant
+8	敜 敝 敞 敟 敠 敡 敢TC variant 散 敤 敥 敦 敧 敨 敩SC (=斆) 敪 敬SC/JP variant
+9	敫 敬TC variant 敭 敮 敯 数SC/JP (=數)
+10	敱 敲 敳
+11	敵 敶 敷 數 敹 敺 敻
+12	整 敼 敽 敾 敿
+13	厳JP (=嚴 -> 口) 斀 斁 斂
+14	斃
+15	斄
+16	斅 斆 (=斅)

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+6534