Radical 110 or radical spear (矛部) meaning "spear" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

← 109 Radical 110 (U+2F6D) 111 →
(U+77DB) "spear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:máo
Bopomofo:ㄇㄠˊ
Wade–Giles:mao2
Cantonese Yale:maau4
Jyutping:maau4
Japanese Kana:ボウ bō / ム mu (on'yomi)
ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:모 mo
Names
Chinese name(s):矛字旁 máozìpáng
Japanese name(s):矛/ほこ hoko
矛偏/ほこへん hokohen
Hangul:창 chang
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 65 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 121st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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Literature

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  • 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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