Radical 96 or radical jade (玉部) meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into ⺩ consisting of four strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 473 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
The variant form of this radical, 王, is used as the 61st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form 玉, along with the left component variant ⺩, are listed as its associated indexing components.
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]
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. ISBN0-89659-774-1.
GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.
