Radical 21
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Radical 21 or radical spoon (匕部) meaning "spoon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.
Quick Facts 匕, Pronunciations ...
匕 | ||||
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匕 (U+5315) "spoon" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | bǐ | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄅㄧˇ | |||
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | bii | |||
Wade–Giles: | pi3 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | bei6 | |||
Jyutping: | bei2 bei6 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pí | |||
Japanese Kana: | ヒ hi (on'yomi) さじ saji (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 비 bi | |||
Names | ||||
Japanese name(s): | 匕のヒ/さじのひ sajinohi | |||
Hangul: | 비수 bisu | |||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
匕 is also the 15th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.