Radical 197

鹵
Radical 197 (U+2FC4)
鹵 (U+9E75) "salt"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lǔ
Bopomofo:ㄌㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:lu3
Cantonese Yale:lou5
Jyutping:lou5
Japanese Kana:ロ ro (on'yomi)
しお shio (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:로 ro
Hán-Việt:lỗ
Names
Japanese name(s):ろ ro
しお shio
Hangul:소금밭 sogeumbat
Stroke order animation

Radical 197 or radical salt (鹵部) meaning "salt" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卤 (7 strokes), the simplified form of 鹵 is the 156th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 鹵 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 卤SC (=鹵) 鹵
+4 鹶
+5 鹷
+8 鹸JP (=鹼)
+9 鹹 鹾SC (=鹺)
+10 鹺 鹻 (=鹼)
+13 鹼 鹽

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.