Radical 97 or radical melon (瓜部) meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).

← 96 Radical 97 (U+2F60) 98 →
(U+74DC) "melon"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:guā
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄚ
Wade–Giles:kua1
Cantonese Yale:gwā
Jyutping:gwaa1
Japanese Kana:カ ka (on'yomi)
うり uri (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:과 gwa
Names
Chinese name(s):瓜字旁 guāzìpáng
Japanese name(s):瓜/うり uri
Hangul:오이 oi
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 113th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
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+3
+5
+6
+8
+11
+14
+17
+19

Variant forms edit

There is a design nuance between the form of in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.

Chinese
(Mainland China)
Chinese
(Taiwan)
Modern Japanese

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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