Radical 193 or radical cauldron (鬲部) meaning "cauldron" or "tripod" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 73 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

鬲 is also the 189th 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
+6
+7
+8鬵 鬶SC (=鬹)
+9
+10
+11鬹 鬺
+12

Variant forms

  • Standard form in Japanese and Korean Alternative form in Traditional Chinese
  • Standard form in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
  • Alternative form

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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