Radical 90

爿
Radical 90 (U+2F59)
爿 (U+723F) "half of tree trunk"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	qiáng
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄧㄤˊ
Wade–Giles:	ch'iang2
Cantonese Yale:	chèuhng
Jyutping:	coeng4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chiông
Japanese Kana:	ショウ shō (on'yomi) だい dai (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	장 jang
Names
Japanese name(s):	爿偏/しょうへん shōhen
Hangul:	조각널 jogak neol
Stroke order animation

Radical 90 or radical half tree trunk (爿部) meaning "half of a tree trunk" or "split wood" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 48 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, 爿 is listed as the associated indexing component under the 45th principal indexing component 丬. However, the character 爿 itself and 爿 as in some other characters (e.g. 戕, 寐, etc.) are not simplified. Similar inconsistency can also be found in Japanese shinjitai.

Evolution

A bed; component of 疒; Mirror of 片.

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script variant
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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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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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	爿 丬Component only
+4	牀
+5	牁
+6	牂
+9	牃
+10	牄
+11	牅
+13	牆

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+723F