Radical 58

彐
Radical 58 (U+2F39)
彐 (U+5F50) "pig snout"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jì
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:	chi4
Cantonese Yale:	gai
Jyutping:	gai3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kī
Japanese Kana:	ケイ kei (on'yomi) けいがしら keigashira (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	계 gye
Names
Chinese name(s):	雪字底 xuězìdǐ 尋字頭/寻字头 xúnzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	彑頭/けいがしら keigashira 豕頭/いのこがしら inokogashira
Hangul:	돼지머리 dwaeji meori
Stroke order animation

Radical 58 or radical snout (彐部) meaning "pig snout" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

彐 is also the 50 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, ⺕ and 彑, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 彐.

Evolution

彑/彐

Unrelated to 彔-录, 庚 (7th Heavenly Stem). 彐 sometimes means hand (又) such as in 帚, 雪, and 聿.

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  Small seal script character

彔

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  Oracle bone script
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  Bronze script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

当 (simplied from 當)

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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	彐 彑
+2	归SC(=歸 -> 止)
+3	当SC/JP(=當 -> 田)
+5	彔 录SC (= 錄 -> 金 / 彔)
+6	彖
+7	兼
+8	彗
+9	彘
+10	彙 彚 (=彙)
+13	彛 (=彝) 彜 (=彝)
+15	彝 彞 (=彝)
+19	彟SC (=彠)
+23	彠

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+5F50