Radical 191

Summary

Radical 191 or radical fight (鬥部) meaning "fight" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

← 190 Radical 191 (U+2FBE) 192 →
(U+9B25) "fight"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dòu
Bopomofo:ㄉㄡˋ
Wade–Giles:tou4
Cantonese Yale:dau3
Jyutping:dau3
Japanese Kana:トウ tō (on'yomi)
たたか-う tataka-u (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:투 tu
Hán-Việt:đấu, dấu
Names
Japanese name(s):闘構/たたかいがまえ/とうがまえ tatakaigamae / tōgamae
Hangul:싸울 ssaul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 23 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.[1]

is also the 190th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. However, this radical character and former radical 169 "door" were merged to during the simplification. is therefore no longer in use in Simplified Chinese and is retained as an indexing component only for historical reasons.

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
+0
+4 鬦 (=鬥)
+5
+6
+8
+10 鬪 (=鬥)
+12
+14 (=鬭) 鬭 (=鬥)
+17

References edit

  1. ^ "Unihan data for U+9B25". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 26 March 2011.

Literature edit

  • 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.