Radical 182

風
Radical 182 (U+2FB5)
風 (U+98A8) "wind"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	fēng
Bopomofo:	ㄈㄥ
Wade–Giles:	feng1
Cantonese Yale:	fung1
Jyutping:	fung¹, fung³
Japanese Kana:	フウ fū / フ fu (on'yomi) かぜ kaze (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	풍 pung
Hán-Việt:	phong, phông
Names
Japanese name(s):	風/かぜ kaze
Hangul:	바람 baram
Stroke order animation

Stroke order of the simplified form 风

Radical 182 or radical wind (風部) meaning "wind" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 182 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Taoist cosmology, 風 (wind) is the nature component of the Bagua diagram 巽 Xùn.

风, the simplified form of 風, is the 91st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 風 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters (風)	Characters (风)
+0	風	风^SC (=風)
+3	颩 颪^JP	飏^SC (=颺)
+4	颫 颬
+5	颭 颮 颯 颰 颱	飐^SC (=颭) 飑^SC (=颮) 飒^SC (=颯)
+6	颲 颳
+7	颴 颵
+8	颶 颷 (=飆)	飓^SC (=颶)
+9	颸 颹 颺	飔^SC (=颸) 飖^SC (=颻)
+10	颻 颼 颽 颾 颿 飀	飕^SC (=颼) 飗^SC (=飀)
+11	飁 飂 飃 (=飄) 飄	飘^SC (=飄)
+12	飅 飆 飇 (=飆) 飈 (=飆) 飉 飊 (=飆)	飙^SC (=飆) 飚^SC nonstandard (=飈=飆)
+13	飋
+18	飌 (=風) 飍

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/風

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, the stroke above 虫 in the radical character 風 is horizontal, while it is a left-falling stroke in other languages.

Kangxi Dictionary Trad. Chinese (TW, HK, MO)	Japanese Korean Trad. Chinese (Mainland China)	Simp. Chinese
風	風	风

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.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]

References

1. "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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+98A8