Radical 96

玉
Radical 96 (U+2F5F)
玉 (U+7389) "jade"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yù
Bopomofo:	ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yuh
Wade–Giles:	yü4
Cantonese Yale:	yuhk
Jyutping:	juk6
Japanese Kana:	ギョク gyoku / ゴク goku (on'yomi) たま tama (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	옥 ok
Names
Chinese name(s):	(⺩) 玉字旁 yùzìpáng (Bottom) 玉字底 yùzìdǐ (⺩) 王字旁 wángzìpáng (⺩) 提玉旁 tíyùpáng (⺩) 斜王旁 xiéwángpáng
Japanese name(s):	玉/たま tama (⺩) 玉偏/たまへん tamahen (⺩) 玉偏/ぎょくへん gyokuhen (⺩) 王偏/おうへん ōhen
Hangul:	구슬 guseul
Stroke order animation

Stroke order in Japanese

Radical 96 or radical jade (玉部) meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into ⺩ consisting of four strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 473 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

The variant form of this radical, 王, is used as the 61st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form 玉, along with the left component variant ⺩, are listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

玉 (jade)

Pictogram of cóng (琮). Historically very similar to 王.

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  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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  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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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script
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  Qing dynasty Clerical script

王 (king)

A ritual axe. Compare 士, 立.

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script variant
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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script variant
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script variant
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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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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

主

Means "master". Oracle bone same as 示.

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	玉 玊 王
+1	玌 玍
+2	玎 玏 玐 玑SC (=璣)
+3	玒 玓 玔 玕 玖 玗 玘 玙SC (=璵) 玚SC (=瑒) 玛SC (=瑪)
+4	玜 玝 玞 玟 玠 玡 玢 玣 玤 玥 玦 玧 玨 玩 玪 玫 玬 玭 玮SC (=瑋) 环SC (=環) 现SC (=現) 玱SC (=瑲)
+5	玲SC/玲TC/玲JP 玳 玴 玵 玶 玷 玸 玹 玺SC (=璽) 玻 玼 玽 玾 玿 珀 珁 珂 珃 珄 珅 珆 珇 珈 珉 珊SC/珊TC/JP 珋 珌 珍 珎 珏 珐 珑SC (=瓏)
+6	珒 珓 珔 珕 珖 珗 珘 珙 珚 珛 珜 珝 珞 珟 珠 珡 珢 珣 珤 珥 珦 珧 珨 珩 珪 珫 珬 班 珮 珯 珰SC (=璫) 珱JP nonstandard (=瓔) 珲SC (=琿) 琤SC variant
+7	珳 珴 珵 珶 珷 珸 珹 珺 珻 珼 珽 現 珿 琀 琁 琂 球 琄 琅 理 琇 琈 琉 琊 琋 琌 琍 琎SC (=璡) 琏SC (=璉) 琐SC (=瑣) 琑 琒 琓 琷SC variant
+8	琔 琕 琖 琗 琘 琙 琚 琛 琜 琝 琞 琟 琠 琡 琢 琮 琯 琰 琱 琲 琳 琴 琺 琣 琤TC variant 琥 琦 琧 琨 琩 琪 琫 琬 琭 琵 琶 琷TC variant 琸 琹 (=琴) 琻 琼SC (=瓊) 瑛SC/JP variant
+9	琽 琾 琿 瑀 瑁 瑂 瑃 瑄 瑅 瑆 瑇 瑈 瑉 瑊 瑋 瑌 瑍 瑎 瑏 瑐 瑑 瑒 瑓 瑔 瑕 瑖 瑗 瑘 瑙 瑚 瑛TC variant 瑜 瑝 瑞 瑟 瑶SC (=瑤) 瑳SC variant 瑥SC/HK variant 瑵SC variant
+10	瑠 瑡 瑢 瑣 瑤 瑥TC variant 瑦 瑧 瑨SC/瑨TC/JP 瑩 瑪 瑫 瑬 瑭 瑮 瑯 瑰 瑱 瑲 瑳TC/JP variant 瑴 瑵TC variant 瑷SC (=璦) 瑸SC (=璸) 璍GB TC variant
+11	瑹 瑺 瑻 瑼 瑽 瑾 瑿 璀 璁 璂 璃 璄 璅 璆 璇 璈 璉 璊 璋 璌 璎SC (=瓔) 璓SC variant 璜SC variant
+12	璓TC variant 璍Traditional variant 璏 璐 璑 璒 璔 璕 璖 璗 璘 璙 璚 璛 璜TC variant 璝 璞 璟 璠 璡 璢 (=瑠) 璣 璤
+13	璥 璦 璧 璨 璩 璪 璫 璬 璭 璮 璯 環 璱 璲 璳 璴
+14	璵 璶 璷 璸 璹 璺 璻 璼 璽 璾 璿 瓀 瓁 瓂
+15	瓃 瓄 瓅 瓆 瓇 瓈 瓉 瓊 瓋
+16	瓌 瓍 瓎 瓏 瓐 瓑 瓒SC (=瓚)
+17	瓓 瓔 瓕 瓖
+18	瓗 瓘 瓙
+19	瓚
+20	瓛

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+7389