Radical 26

Radical 26 or radical seal (卩部) meaning "seal" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

卩
Radical 26 (U+2F19)
卩 (U+5369) "seal"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jié
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Wade–Giles:	chieh2
Cantonese Yale:	jit
Jyutping:	zit3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chiat
Japanese Kana:	セツ setsu (on'yomi) わりふ warifu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	절 jeol
Names
Chinese name(s):	(卩) 單耳旁/单耳旁 dān'ěrpáng (卩) 單耳刀/单耳刀 dān'ěrdāo (㔾) 卷字底 juǎnzìdǐ (㔾, Simp.) 仓字底 cāngzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	節旁/ふしづくり fushizukuri まげわりふ magewarifu わりふ warifu
Hangul:	무릎마디 mureup-madi
Stroke order animation

It usually transforms as 㔾 when appearing at the bottom of a Chinese character.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卩 is also the 21st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 㔾 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	卩
+1	卪
+2	卫SC (=衛/衞 -> 行) 卬
+3	卭 卮 卯
+4	印 危
+5	卲 即 却SC/JP (=卻) 卵
+6	卶 卷 卸 卺
+7	卹 卻 卼 卽
+8	卿
+9	卾
+11	厀 厁

In Unihan database, 㔾 is indexed radical 26 + 1 stroke (3 strokes in total), with the extra stroke unspecified. Traditionally, this character or component consists of only two strokes (𠃌乚).

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5369