Radical 153

豸
Radical 153 (U+2F98)
豸 (U+8C78) "badger, legless insect"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zhì
Bopomofo:	ㄓˋ
Wade–Giles:	chih4
Cantonese Yale:	jaai6, ji6
Jyutping:	zaai6, zi6
Japanese Kana:	チ chi / タイ tai (on'yomi) とける tokeru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	치 chi
Names
Japanese name(s):	貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen
Hangul:	발 없는 벌레 bal eomneun beolle
Stroke order animation

Radical 153 or radical badger (豸部) meaning "badger" or "legless insect" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 140 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

豸 is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	豸
+3	豹 豺 豻
+4	豼 豽
+5	豾 豿 貀 貁 貂 貃
+6	貄 貅 貆 貇 貈 貉 貊
+7	貋 (=豻) 貌 貍
+8	貎 貏
+9	貐 貑 貒 貓
+10	貔 貕 貖
+11	貗 貘 貙
+12	貚
+18	貛 (=獾 -> 犬)
+20	貜

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/豸

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+8C78