Radical 186

香
Radical 186 (U+2FB9)
香 (U+9999) "fragrant"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	xiāng
Bopomofo:	ㄒㄧㄤ
Wade–Giles:	hsiang1
Cantonese Yale:	heung1
Jyutping:	hoeng1
Japanese Kana:	コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi) か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	향 hyang
Hán-Việt:	hương
Names
Japanese name(s):	かおり kaori 匂い香/においコウ nioikō
Hangul:	향기 hyanggi
Stroke order animation

Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

香 is also the 183rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	香
+4	馚
+5	馛 馜 馝
+7	馞 馟 馠
+8	馡 馢 馣
+9	馤 馥
+10	馦 馧
+11	馨
+12	馩
+14	馪
+18	馫 (=馨)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/香

Kanji

As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1]

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.^[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).^[2]

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.
2. "小学校の必修漢字に都道府県名２０字追加 ２０年度にも". 朝日新聞デジタル. 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9999