Radical 170
| 阜 | |
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Radical 170 (U+2FA9)
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| 阜 (U+961C) "mound, dam" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | fù |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄨˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | fu4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | fau6 |
| Jyutping: | fau6 |
| Japanese Kana: | フ fu / フウ fū (on'yomi) おか oka (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu |
| Hán-Việt: | phụ |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | (⻖) 左耳旁 zuǒ'ěrpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | こざとへん kozatohen 岐阜の阜 Gifu no fu |
| Hangul: | 언덕 eondeok |
| Stroke order animation | |
Radical 170 or radical mound (阜部) meaning "mound" or "dam" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into 阝 (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with 阝 on the right derived from 邑).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
阜 is also the 175th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 阝 (left) listed as its associated indexing component.