Radical 50

巾
Radical 50 (U+2F31)
巾 (U+5DFE) "turban, scarf"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jīn
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄣ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	jin
Wade–Giles:	chin1
Cantonese Yale:	gān
Jyutping:	gan1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kun
Japanese Kana:	キン kin きれ kire (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	건 geon
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left/right) 巾字旁 jīnzìpáng (Bottom) 巾字底 jīnzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	巾/はば haba 幅偏/はばへん habahen 巾偏/きんへん/きんべん kinhen/kinben
Hangul:	수건 sugeon
Stroke order animation

Radical 50 or radical turban (巾部) meaning "turban" or "scarf" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 295 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

巾 is also the 40th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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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

巿

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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

市 (city; market)

Phono-semantic compound: semantic 兮 ("bustling") + phonetic 之 (OC *tjɯ).

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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

帝 (sovereign)

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  Shang dynasty oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty bronze script
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  Western Zhou bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period 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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  Shuowen ancient script
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  Small seal script

帚 (broom)

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  Shang dynasty oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou bronze script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	巾
+1	巿 帀 币SC (=幣)
+2	市 布 帄 帅SC (=帥)
+3	帆 帇 师SC (=師)
+4	帉 帊 帋 (=紙 -> 糸) 希 帍 帎 帏 (幃) 帐SC (=帳)
+5	帑 帒 帓 帔 帕 帖 帗 帘 帙 帚 帛 帜SC (=幟)
+6	帝 帞 帟 帠 帡 帢 帣 帤 帥 带SC (=帶) 帧SC (=幀)
+7	帨 帩 帪 師 帬 (=裙 -> 衣) 席 帮SC (=幫) 帯JP (=帶) 帰JP (=歸 -> 止) 帱SC (=幬)
+8	帲Kangxi (=帡) 帳 帴 帵 帶 帷 常 帹 帺 帻SC (=幘) 帼SC (=幗)
+9	帽 帾 帿 幀 幁 幂 幃 幄 幅 幆 幇JP (=幫) 幉
+10	幊 幋 幌 幍 幎 幏 幐
+11	幈 幑 幒 幓 幔 幕 幖 幗 幘 幙 幚 (=幫) 幛
+12	幜 幝 幞 幟 幠 幡 幢 幣 幤 幥
+13	幦 幧 幨 幩
+14	幪 幫 幬
+15	幭 幮 幯
+16	幰
+17	幱

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+5DFE