Radical 177 or radical leather (革部) meaning "leather" or "rawhide" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 305 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

革 is also the 179th 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
+2
+3靫 靬 靭JP (=韌 -> ) 靮 靯 靰 靱 (=韌 -> )
+4靲 靳 靴 靵 靶 靷 靸 靹
+5靺 靻 靼 靽 靾 靿 鞀 鞁 鞂 鞃 鞄 鞅 鞆
+6鞇 鞈 鞉 (=鞀) 鞊 鞋 鞌 (=鞍) 鞍 鞎 鞏 鞐 鞑SC (=韃) 鞒SC (=鞽)
+7鞓 鞔 鞕 鞖 鞗 鞘 鞙
+8鞚 鞛 (=琫 -> ) 鞜 鞝 鞞 鞟 鞠 鞡
+9鞢 鞣 鞤 鞥 鞦 鞧 鞨 鞩 鞪 鞫 鞬 鞭 鞮 鞯SC (=韉) 鞰 (=韞 -> )
+10鞱 鞲 鞳 鞴 鞵 (=鞋) 鞶 鞷
+11鞸 鞹 鞺 鞻
+12鞼 鞽 鞾 鞿
+13韀 韁 韂 韃
+14韄 韅
+15韆 韇 韈 (=襪 -> )
+17
+21

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 fifth 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.

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