Radical 166 Explained

Uni:91CC
Meaning:village, li (distance unit)
Pny:
Bopo:ㄌㄧˇ
Wade:li3
Jyutping:lei5
Yale:lei5
Onyomi:リ ri
Kunyomi:さと sato
Jp:里/さと sato
(Left) 里偏/さとへん satohen
Hang:마을 maeul
Hanja:리 ri
Hanviet:lý, lí

Radical 166 or radical village meaning "village" or "li" (a traditional Chinese unit of distance) is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 157th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Simplified Chinese, or which mean "inside" is merged to .

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 (also SC form of / -> )
+2
+4
+5
+11

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.[1] It is a second grade kanji

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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.