Radical 104

← 103 Radical 104 (U+2F67) 105 →
(U+7592) "sickness"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chuáng, nè
Bopomofo:ㄔㄨㄤˊ, ㄋㄜˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chwang, neh
Wade–Giles:chʻuang2, nê4
Cantonese Yale:nihk
Jyutping:nik6
Japanese Kana:ダク daku / ニャク nyaku (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:녁 nyeok
Names
Chinese name(s):病字頭/病字头 bìngzìtóu
Japanese name(s):病垂/やまいだれ yamaidare
Hangul:병 byeong
Stroke order animation

Radical 104 or radical sickness (疒部) meaning "sickness" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 526 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 115th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC (=癤) SC (=療)
+3 (= -> ) SC (=瘧) SC (=癘)
+4 SC (=瘍) (=瘁) SC (=癧) SC (=瘲) SC (=瘡) SC (=瘋)
+5 SC (=) SC (=痾) (=痱) SC (=癰) SC (=痙)
+6 (= -> ) SC/JP (=癢) SC (=瘂)
+7 SC (=癆) JP (=瘦) SC (=瘓) SC (=癇)
+8 SC (=痺) (= -> ) SC (=癉) SC (=瘮)
+9 (= -> ) (=) SC (=瘞) SC (=瘺)
+10 SC (=癟) SC (=癱)
+11 (=瘺) SC (=癮) SC (=癭)
+12 (= -> / 𥡤 -> ) (=瘤) (= -> 广) (=癇)
+13 (=瘝) SC (=癩)
+14 (=痴) SC (=癬)
+15
+16 SC (=癲)
+17
+18
+19
+21
+23
+25

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.