Radical 79 Explained

Uni:6BB3
Meaning:weapon, lance
Pny:shū
Bopo:ㄕㄨ
Wade:shu1
Jyutping:syu4
Yale:syùh
Poj:
Onyomi:シュ shu
Kunyomi:ほこ hoko
Jp:殳/ほこ hoko
殳旁/ほこづくり hokozukuri
ル又/るまた rumata
Hang:칠 chil
Hanja:수 su

Radical 79 or radical weapon meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 92nd 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
+5 SC/JP (=毆)
+6
+7 JP/GB TC/variant (=殼)
+8
+9 SC (=毀) SC (= -> )
+10
+11
+12
+15
+19

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