Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
| 弓 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 弓 (U+5F13) "bow" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gōng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gong | |
| Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
| Jyutping: | gung1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kiong | |
| Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 궁 gung | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 弓字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen | |
| Hangul: | 활 hwal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.
弓 is also the 53rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
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