Radical 143 Explained

Uni:	8840
Meaning:	blood
Pny:	xuè
Bopo:	ㄒㄩㄝˋ
Wade:	hsüeh4
Jyutping:	hyut3
Yale:	hyut3
Onyomi:	ケツ ketsu / ケチ kechi
Kunyomi:	ち chi
Jp:	血/ち chi (Left) 血偏/ちへん chihen
Hang:	피 pi
Hanja:	혈 hyeol

Radical 143 or radical blood meaning "blood" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 138th 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
+3	(=衄)
+4
+5	^SC (= -> 酉)
+6	^JP/KO/GB TC (= -> 目) (= -> 肉)
+15
+18

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a third grade kanji.

Further reading

• Book: Fazzioli, Edoardo . calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko . Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters . 1987 . . New York . 0-89659-774-1 .

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8840

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.