Radical 4 Explained

Uni:4E3F
Meaning:slash
Pny:piě
Bopo:ㄆ一ㄝˇ
Wade:p'ieh3
Jyutping:pit3
Yale:pit
Poj:phia̍t
Cn:撇 piě
Hang:삐침 ppichim
Hanja:별 byeol
Onyomi:ヘツ hetsu
Jp:ノ no
はらいぼう haraibō

Radical 4 or radical slash meaning "slash" or "bend" is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 33 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

It is highly similar to the Japanese katakana, no, thus colloquially referred to as "no" in Japanese.

is also the 4th 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
+1 JP
+2 (=久) (also SC form of -> 广) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> )
+3 SC (= -> )
+4 SC (= -> )
+5 SC (= -> )
+6 (= -> )
+7
+8 JP (=乘)
+9

In calligraphy

The only left-falling stroke in Radical 4, known as piě, is basic to Chinese calligraphy. It has two different forms, 掠 lüè and zhuó, in the eight principles of 永 (Yǒngzì Bāfǎ).

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