Radical 127

耒
Radical 127 (U+2F7E)
耒 (U+8012) "plough"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lěi
Bopomofo:ㄌㄟˇ
Wade–Giles:lei3
Cantonese Yale:leui6, loi6
Jyutping:leoi6, loi6
Japanese Kana:ライ rai (on'yomi)
すき suki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:뢰 roe
Names
Japanese name(s):(Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen
らいすき raisuki[1]
Hangul:쟁기 jaenggi
Stroke order animation

Radical 127 or radical plough (耒部) meaning "plough" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 84 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

耒 is also the 122nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 耒
+2 耓
+3 耔
+4 耕 耖 耗 耘 耙
+5 耚 耛 耜 耝 耞 耟
+6 耠
+7 耡 耢SC (=耮)
+8 耣 耤 耥
+9 耦 耧SC (=耬)
+10 耨 耩 耪
+11 耫 耬
+12 耭 耮
+14 耯
+15 耰
+16 耱 耲

Variant forms

Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese xin zixing, it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese jōyō kanji, while hyōgai kanji remain unchanged.

Trad. Chinese
Korean
Japanese Simp. Chinese
耒 耕 耘 耒 耕 耘 耒 耕 耘

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.

References

  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.