Radical 127 Explained

Uni:8012
Meaning:plough
Pny:lěi
Bopo:ㄌㄟˇ
Wade:lei3
Jyutping:leoi6, loi6
Yale:leui6, loi6
Onyomi:ライ rai
Kunyomi:すき suki
Jp:(Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen
らいすき raisuki[1]
Hang:쟁기 jaenggi
Hanja:뢰 roe

Radical 127 or radical plough meaning "plough" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 84 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 122nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7 SC (=耮)
+8
+9 SC (=耬)
+10
+11
+12
+14
+15
+16

Variant forms

Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese xin zixing, it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese jōyō kanji, while hyōgai kanji remain unchanged.

Literature

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Lunde, Ken . CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing . Second . Jan 5, 2009 . . . 978-0-596-51447-1 . Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets . http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf .