Radical 118
| 竹 | |
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Radical 118 (U+2F75)
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| 竹 (U+7AF9) "bamboo" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | zhú |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓㄨˊ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | jwu |
| Wade–Giles: | chu2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | juk1 |
| Jyutping: | zuk1 |
| Japanese Kana: | チク chiku (on'yomi) たけ take (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 죽 juk |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 竹字頭/竹字头 zhúzìtóu |
| Japanese name(s): | 竹/たけ take 竹冠/たけかんむり takekanmuri |
| Hangul: | 대 dae |
| Stroke order animation | |
Radical 118 or radical bamboo (竹部) meaning "bamboo" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. The radical character usually appears at the top of characters and transforms into 𥫗.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, 953 characters (out of 49,030) are found under this radical.
竹 is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𥫗 being its associated indexing component.