Radical 77

止
Radical 77 (U+2F4C)
止 (U+6B62) "stop"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhǐ
Bopomofo:ㄓˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:jyy
Wade–Giles:chih3
Cantonese Yale:jí
Jyutping:zi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:chí
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
と-まる to-maru / と-める to-meru / や-める ya-meru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:지 ji
Names
Japanese name(s):止める/とめる tomeru
止偏/とめへん tomehen
Hangul:그칠 geuchil
Stroke order animation

Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

止 is also the 73rd 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 止
+1 正
+2 此
+3 步
+4 武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步)
+5 歪 歫
+6 歬 (=前 -> 刀) 歭
+8 歮
+9 歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲)
+10 歴JP (=歷)
+11 歵 歶
+12 歷
+14 歸

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 止 is a 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. ^ 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