Radical 96 or radical jade (玉部) meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

← 95 Radical 96 (U+2F5F) 97 →
(U+7389) "jade"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yuh
Wade–Giles:4
Cantonese Yale:yuhk
Jyutping:juk6
Japanese Kana:ギョク gyoku / ゴク gyoku (on'yomi)
たま tama (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:옥 ok
Names
Chinese name(s):(⺩) 玉字旁 yùzìpáng
(Bottom) 玉字底 yùzìdǐ
(⺩) 王字旁 wángzìpáng
(⺩) 提玉旁 tíyùpáng
(⺩) 斜王旁 xiéwángpáng
Japanese name(s):玉/たま tama
(⺩) 玉偏/たまへん tamahen
(⺩) 玉偏/ぎょくへん gyokuhen
(⺩) 王偏/おうへん ōhen
Hangul:구슬 guseul
Stroke order animation
Stroke order in Japanese

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into consisting of four strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 473 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

The variant form of this radical, , is used as the 61st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form , along with the left component variant , are listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

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玉 (jade)

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王 (king)

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2 SC (=璣)
+3 SC (=璵) SC (=瑒) SC (=瑪)
+4 SC (=瑋) SC (=環) SC (=現) SC (=瑲)
+5 SC/TC/JP SC (=璽) SC/TC/JP SC (=瓏)
+6 SC (=璫) JP nonstandard (=瓔) SC (=琿) SC variant
+7 SC (=璡) SC (=璉) SC (=瑣) SC variant
+8 TC variant TC variant (=琴) SC (=瓊) SC/JP variant
+9 TC variant SC (=瑤) SC variant SC/HK variant SC variant
+10 TC variant SC/TC/JP TC/JP variant TC variant SC (=璦) SC (=璸) GB TC variant
+11 SC (=瓔) SC variant SC variant
+12 TC variant Traditional variant TC variant (=瑠)
+13
+14
+15
+16 SC (=瓚)
+17
+18
+19
+20

Sinogram

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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 first grade kanji[1]


References

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

Literature

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