Radical 57

"弓" redirects here. For other uses, see 弓 (disambiguation).

弓
Radical 57 (U+2F38)
弓 (U+5F13) "bow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gōng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	gong
Wade–Giles:	kung^1
Cantonese Yale:	gūng
Jyutping:	gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kiong
Japanese Kana:	キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	궁 gung
Names
Chinese name(s):	弓字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen
Hangul:	활 hwal
Stroke order animation

Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.

弓 is also the 53rd 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	弓
+1	弔 引 弖
+2	弗 弘
+3	弙 弚 弛 弜
+4	弝 弞 弟 张^SC (張)
+5	弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪
+6	弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯^SC/弯^JP (=彎)
+7	弰 弱 弲 弳^SC (=弳)
+8	弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹^SC (=彈)
+9	强 弻 弼 弽 弾
+10	弿 彀 彁^"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶)
+11	彃 彄 彅^JP
+12	彆 彇 彈 彉
+13	彊 (=強) 彋
+14	彌
+15	彍
+19	彎
+20	彏

Sinogram

As an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second 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.

Further reading

• 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+5F13