Radical 129 or radical brush (聿部) meaning "brush" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

← 128 Radical 129 (U+2F80) 130 →
(U+807F) "brush"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yuh
Wade–Giles:4
Cantonese Yale:waht
Jyutping:wat6
Japanese Kana:イツ itsu / イチ ichi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:율 yul
Names
Japanese name(s):筆旁/ふでづくり fudezukuri
Hangul:붓 but
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 145th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with and being its associated indexing components.

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
+0
+4 SC (=肅)
+5 JP (=肅)
+7
+8 (=肇)

Literature edit

  • 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.

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