List of Chinese Radicals

The Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首) is an essential element of the Chinese dictionary. The list of Chinese radicals is a rough equivalent of a Chinese "alphabet". Every Chinese character is classified under a radical and characters with the same radical are sorted by the number of strokes (Simplified Chinese: 画; Traditional Chinese: 畫) used in writing them. The number of strokes varies between 1 and 17. Characters belonging to a particular radical are in turn listed on the basis of the number of additional strokes. Note that the number of strokes is not always clear to the untrained eye. There have been several systems of radicals in use at various times during the history of the Chinese language. The following describes the Unicode system of radicals, which is based on the traditional 214 radicals of the Kangxi dictionary. The main difference between the Unicode and the Kangxi radicals is that the Unicode system has been extended to classify both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as characters which are used only in Japanese or Korean. 1  Stroke Chinese Radicals: 一 丨 丶 丿 乙/乚 亅/了 2 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 二 亠 人/亻 儿 入 八 冂 冖 冫 几 凵 刀/刂 力 勹 匕 匚/匸 十 卜 卩 厂 厶 又 讠 阝 3 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 艹 口 囗 土 士 夂 夕 大 女 子/孑 宀 寸 小 尢 尸 屮 山 川/巛 工 己 巾 干 幺 纟 广 廴 廾 弋 弓 彐/彑 彡 彳 忄 扌 氵 犭 辶 门 饣 马 4 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 心 戈 户 手 支 攴 攵 文 斗 禸 斤 方 无 日/曰 月 木 欠 止 歹 殳 毋 比 毛 氏 气 水 火/灬 爪 父 片 牙 牛 犬 王 礻 贝 长 韦 风 飞 见 车 5 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 玄 玉 瓜 瓦 甘 生 用 衤 田 疋 疒 癶 白 皮 皿 目 矛 矢 石 示 禾 穴 立 鸟 龙 钅 6 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 竹 米 糸 缶 网 羊 羽 老 而 耒 耳 聿 肉 臣 自 至 臼 舌 舟 艮 色 虍 虫 血 行 衣 西 页 齐 7 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 角 言 谷 豆 豕 豸 赤 走 足 身  辛 辰 邑 酉 釆 卤 里  龟 8 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 金 阜 隶 隹 雨 青 非 鱼 齿 黾 9 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 骨 面 革 韭 音 食 首 香 鬼 10 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 高 髟 鬲 11 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 鹿 黄 麻 12 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 黍 鼎 黑 黹 13 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 鼓 鼠 14 Stroke Chinese Radicals: 鼻