Radical 121 Explained

Uni:7F36
Meaning:jar
Pny:fǒu
Bopo:ㄈㄡˇ
Wade:fou3
Jyutping:fau2
Yale:fau2
Onyomi:フ fu / フウ fū
Kunyomi:ほとぎ hotogi
Jp:缶 ほとぎ
(Left) 缶偏/ほとぎへん hotogihen
缶/かん kan
Hang:장군 janggun
Hanja:부 bu

Radical 121 or radical jar meaning "jar" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 133rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Japanese, is the shinjitai form of, but the two characters are historically irrelevant.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 (= -> )
+3
+4 (=缺)
+5 (=缶‎)
+6 (= -> )
+8 SC (=罌)
+10
+11
+12 (= -> )
+13 (= -> )
+14
+15
+16 (=罈)
+18

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