Radical 179

Radical 179 or radical leek (韭部) meaning "leek" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.^[1]

韭
← 178 Radical 179 (U+2FB2) 180 →
韭 (U+97ED) "leek"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jiǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:	chiu3
Cantonese Yale:	gau2
Jyutping:	gau2
Japanese Kana:	キュウ kyū (on'yomi) にら nira (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	구 gu
Hán-Việt:	cửu
Names
Japanese name(s):	韭/にら nira
Hangul:	부추 buchu
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

韭 is also the 181st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	韭
+4	韮 (=韭)
+6	韯
+7	韰
+8	韱
+10	韲 (=齏 -> 齊)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/韭

References

1. "Unihan data for U+97ED". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

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.