Radical 180

音
Radical 180 (U+2FB3)
音 (U+97F3) "sound"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yīn
Bopomofo:	ㄧㄣ
Wade–Giles:	yin1
Cantonese Yale:	yam1
Jyutping:	jam1
Japanese Kana:	オン on / イン in (on'yomi) おと oto / ね ne (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	음 eum
Hán-Việt:	âm, ậm, ơm
Names
Japanese name(s):	音/おと oto 音偏/おとへん otohen
Hangul:	소리 sori
Stroke order animation

Radical 180 or radical sound (音部) meaning "sound" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 43 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

音 is also the 186th 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	音
+2	竟 章
+4	韴 韵^SC (=韻)
+5	韶 韷
+7	韸
+8	韺^SC
+9	韹 韺^TC
+10	韻 韼^SC
+11	韼^TC韽 韾 響^JP/響^GB TC
+12	響^TC
+13	頀^SC
+14	頀^TC

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/音

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 first grade kanji.^[1]

References

1. "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+97F3