Radical 47

Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

巛
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巛 (U+5DDB) "river"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chuān
Bopomofo:	ㄔㄨㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	chuan
Wade–Giles:	chʻuan1
Cantonese Yale:	chyūn[1]
Jyutping:	cyun1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chhoan
Japanese Kana:	セン sen (on'yomi) かわ kawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	천 cheon
Names
Chinese name(s):	三拐 sānguǎi
Japanese name(s):	川/かわ kawa 曲がり川/まがりがわ magarigawa 曲げ川/まげかわ magekawa 三本川/さんぼんがわ sanbongawa
Hangul:	내 nae
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

巛 is also the 60th 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

Strokes	Characters
+0	巛 巜 川
+3	州 巟 巠 巡
+8	巢 巣JP (=巢)
+12	巤

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.

References

1. Erik E. Peterson. "On-line Chinese Tools - Chinese Character Dictionary". Retrieved 2011-04-08.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5DDB