Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

止 is also the 73rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步)
+5歪 歫
+6歬 (=前 -> ) 歭
+8
+9歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲)
+10歴JP (=歷)
+11歵 歶
+12
+14

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second 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). (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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