Radical 127

耒
Radical 127 (U+2F7E)
耒 (U+8012) "plough"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	lěi
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄟˇ
Wade–Giles:	lei3
Cantonese Yale:	leui6, loi6
Jyutping:	leoi6, loi6
Japanese Kana:	ライ rai (on'yomi) すき suki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	뢰 roe
Names
Japanese name(s):	(Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen らいすき raisuki[1]
Hangul:	쟁기 jaenggi
Stroke order animation

Radical 127 or radical plough (耒部) meaning "plough" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 84 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

耒 is also the 122nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	耒
+2	耓
+3	耔
+4	耕 耖 耗 耘 耙
+5	耚 耛 耜 耝 耞 耟
+6	耠
+7	耡 耢^SC (=耮)
+8	耣 耤 耥
+9	耦 耧^SC (=耬)
+10	耨 耩 耪
+11	耫 耬
+12	耭 耮
+14	耯
+15	耰
+16	耱 耲

Variant forms

Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese xin zixing, it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese jōyō kanji, while hyōgai kanji remain unchanged.

Trad. Chinese Korean	Japanese	Simp. Chinese
耒 耕 耘	耒 耕 耘	耒 耕 耘

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.

References

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8012