Radical 76

欠
Radical 76 (U+2F4B)
欠 (U+6B20) "owe, lack, yawn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:qiàn
Bopomofo:ㄑㄧㄢˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chiann
Wade–Giles:chʻien4
Cantonese Yale:him
Jyutping:him3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:khiàm
Japanese Kana:ケン ken (on'yomi)
あくび akubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:흠 heum
Names
Chinese name(s):欠字旁 qiànzìpáng
Japanese name(s):欠伸/あくび akubi
欠ける/かける kakeru
欠旁/けんづくり kendzukuri
吹き旁/ふきづくり fukidzukuri
Hangul:하품 hapum
Stroke order animation

Radical 76 or radical lack (欠部) meaning "owe", "lack", or "yawn" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

欠 is also the 90th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 欠
+2 次SC/JP/次TC 欢SC (=歡)
+4 欣 欤SC (=歟) 欥 欦 欧SC/JP (=歐)
+5 欨 欪
+6 欫 欬 欭 欮 欯 欰 欱
+7 欲 欳 欴 欵 欶 欷 欸
+8 欹 欺 欻 欼 欽 款 欿 歄GB TC variant
+9 欩 歀 歁 歂 歃 歄Traditional variant 歅 歆 歇 歈
+10 歊 歋 歌 歍
+11 歉 歎 歏 歐 歑 歒 歓JP (=歡) 歔SC variant
+12 歔TC variant 歕 歖 歗 歘 歙 歚
+13 歛 歜 歝
+14 歞 歟
+15 歠 歡GB TC variant
+17 歡Traditional variant

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature