Radical 103 or radical bolt of cloth (疋部) meaning "bolt of cloth" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. When appearing at the left side of a character, it transforms into 𤴔.

← 102 Radical 103 (U+2F66) 104 →
(U+758B) "bolt of cloth"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄆㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:p'i3
Cantonese Yale:pat1
Jyutping:pat1
Japanese Kana:ショ sho / ソ so / ガ ga / ゲ ge (on'yomi)
あし ashi / ひき hiki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:소 so
Names
Japanese name(s):疋/ひき hiki
(𤴔) 疋偏/ひきへん hikihen
Hangul:발 bal
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the component form 𤴔

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 118th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𤴔 being its associated indexing component.

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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