Radical 82

For the ten stroke hair radical, see Radical 190.

Radical 82 or radical fur (毛部) meaning "fur" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

毛
Radical 82 (U+2F51)
毛 (U+6BDB) "fur, hair"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	máo
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄠˊ
Wade–Giles:	mao2
Cantonese Yale:	mòuh
Jyutping:	mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	mô͘
Japanese Kana:	モウ mō ボウ bō (on'yomi) け ke (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	모 mo
Names
Chinese name(s):	毛字底 máozìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	毛/け ke
Hangul:	털 teol
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 211 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

毛 is also the 82nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

The character is a Chinese family name, and often refers to the Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	毛
+3	毜 毝
+4	毞 毟
+5	毠 毡
+6	毢 毣 毤 毥 毦 毧 毨 毩 毪
+7	毫 毬 毭 毮
+8	毯 毰 毱 毲 毳 毴 毵SC (=毿) 毶SC (=𣯶)
+9	毷 毸 毹 毺 毻 毼 毽
+10	毾
+11	毿 氀 氁 氂
+12	氃 氄 氅 氆 氇SC (=氌)
+13	氈 氉 氊
+14	氋
+15	氌
+18	氍
+22	氎

Sinogram

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. It is a second grade kanji.

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+6BDB