Radical 193

For the 13 stroke radical "sacrificial tripod" 鼎, see Radical 206.

鬲
Radical 193 (U+2FC0)
鬲 (U+9B32) "cauldron, tripod"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	lì
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:	li4
Cantonese Yale:	gaak3, lik6
Jyutping:	gaak3, lik6
Japanese Kana:	レキ reki (on'yomi) かなえ kanae (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	력 ryeok
Hán-Việt:	cách
Names
Japanese name(s):	鬲/かなえ kanae
Hangul:	다리 굽은 솥 dari gubeun sot
Stroke order animation

Radical 193 or radical cauldron (鬲部) meaning "cauldron" or "tripod" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 73 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

鬲 is also the 189th 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	鬲
+6	鬳
+7	鬴
+8	鬵 鬶^SC (=鬹)
+9	鬷
+10	鬸
+11	鬹 鬺
+12	鬻

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/鬲

Variant forms

• 
  Standard form in Japanese and Korean
  Alternative form in Traditional Chinese
• 
  Standard form in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
• 
  Alternative form

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.

See also

• Zhu Rong (god)

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9B32