Radical 94

犬
Radical 94 (U+2F5D)
犬 (U+72AC) "dog"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	quǎn
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄩㄢˇ
Wade–Giles:	ch'üan3
Cantonese Yale:	hyún
Jyutping:	hyun2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	khián
Japanese Kana:	ケン ken (on'yomi) いぬ inu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	견 gyeon
Names
Chinese name(s):	(犭) 反犬旁 fǎnquǎnpáng
Japanese name(s):	犬/いぬ inu (犭) 獣偏/けものへん kemonohen
Hangul:	개 gae (犭) 개사슴록변 gaesaseumnokbyeon
Stroke order animation

Radical 94, meaning "dog" (犬部) is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

犬 is also the 66th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 犭 being its associated indexing component.

In Japanese, 犬 is a Kanji symbol, and its Hiragana version is "いぬ" (inu).

犬, just like most Kanji, is used in both Japanese and Chinese languages.

The symbol is pronounced "quăn" in Chinese.

Evolution

Unrelated to 大.

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	犬 犭Component only
+1	犮
+2	犯 犰
+3	犱 犲 犳 犴 犵 状SC/JP (=狀) 犷SC (=獷) 犸SC (=獁)
+4	犹SC (=猶) 犺 犻 犼 犽 犾 犿 狀 狁 狂 狃 狄 狅 狆 狇 狈SC (=狽)
+5	狉 狊 狋 狌 狍 狎 狏 狐 狑 狒 狓 狔 狕 狖 狗 狘 狙 狚 狛 狜 狝SC (=獮) 狞SC (=獰)
+6	狟 狠 狡 狢 狣 狤 狥 狦 狧 狨 狩 狪 狫 独SC/JP (=獨) 狭SC/JP (=狹) 狮SC (=獅) 狯SC (=獪) 狰SC (=猙) 狱SC (=獄) 狲SC (=猻)
+7	倐 狳 狴 狵 狶 狷 狸 狹 狺 狻 狼 狽 狾 狿 猀 猁 猂 猃SC (=獫)
+8	猄 猅 猆 猇 猈 猉 猊 猋 猌 猍 猎SC (=獵) 猏 猐 猑 猒 猓 猔 猕SC (=獼) 猖 猗 猘 猙 猚 猛 猜 猝 猞 猟JP (=獵) 猠 猡SC (=玀) 猪SC/JP (=豬) 猫SC/JP variant (=貓 -> 豸) 猧GB TC variant
+9	猢 猣 猤 猥 猦 猧Traditional variant 猨 猩 猬 猭 献SC/JP (=獻) 猯 猰 猱 猲 猳 猴 猵 猶 猷 猸 猹
+10	猺 猻 猼 猽 猾 猿 獀 獁 獂 獃 獄 獅 獆 獇 獈 獉 獊 獓SC variant 獒SC variant 獏SC variant
+11	獌 獍 獎 獏TC variant 獐 獑 獒TC variant 獓TC variant 獔 獕 獚SC variant
+12	獋 (=獋) 獖 獗 獘 獙 獚TC variant 獛 獜 獝 獞 獟 獠 獡 獢 獣JP (=獸) 獤 獦SC variant
+13	獥 獦TC variant 獧 獨 獩 獪 獫 獬 獭SC (=獺) 獲JP/GB TC variant
+14	獮 獯 獰 獱 獲Traditional variant 獳 獴SC variant 獷GB TC variant
+15	獴TC variant 獵 獶 獷Traditional variant 獸
+16	獹 獺 獻
+17	獼 獽 獾SC variant
+18	獾TC variant 獿
+19	玀
+20	玁 玂 玃

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

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+72AC