Radical 55

廾
Radical 55 (U+2F36)
廾 (U+5EFE) "two hands, arch"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gǒng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥˇ
Wade–Giles:	kung3
Cantonese Yale:	gúng
Jyutping:	gung2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kióng
Japanese Kana:	キョウ kyō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	공 gong
Names
Chinese name(s):	弄字底 nòngzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	拱き/こまぬき komanuki 廿脚/にじゅうあし nijūashi
Hangul:	들 teul
Stroke order animation

Radical 55 or radical two hands (廾部) meaning "two hands", "twenty" or "arch" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

廾 is also the 32nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

廾

Two hands (又). Sometimes transforms to 八 at the bottom of a character e.g. 兵, 共 and 具. Unrelated to 升.

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

廿 (twenty)

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	廾
+1	廿 开SC (=開 -> 門)
+2	弁 (also JP form of 辨 -> 辛 / 瓣 -> 瓜 / 辯 -> 辛)
+3	异SC/variant (=異 -> 田)
+4	弃SC/variant (=棄 -> 木) 弄 弅
+5	弆
+6	弇 弈
+7	弉
+12	弊

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+5EFE