Radical 165 or radical distinguish (釆部) meaning "distinguish" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

Quick Facts 釆, Pronunciations ...
 164 Radical 165 (U+2FA4) 166 
(U+91C6) "distinguish"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:biàn
Bopomofo:ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Wade–Giles:pien4
Cantonese Yale:bin6
Jyutping:bin6
Japanese Kana:ハン han / ベン ben (on'yomi)
わかれる wakareru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:변 byeon
Hán-Việt:biện
Names
Japanese name(s):米/のごめ nogome
ノ米偏/のごめへん nogomehen
Hangul:분별할 bunbyeolhal
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 161st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

More information Strokes, Characters ...
StrokesCharacters
+0
+1 (also SC form of -> )
+4JP (=釋)
+5 SC (=釋)
+13
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Literature

  • 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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