Radical 118

竹
Radical 118 (U+2F75)
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
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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.

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As an independent sinogram 竹 is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It means bamboo or the middle of a 3-tier ranking system.

Look up 竹 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• 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.

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