Radical 43

Radical 43 or radical lame (尢部) meaning "lame" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

尢
Radical 43 (U+2F2A)
尢 (U+5C22) "lame"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wāng
Bopomofo:	ㄨㄤ
Wade–Giles:	wang1
Cantonese Yale:	wōng
Jyutping:	wong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ong
Japanese Kana:	オウ ō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	왕 wang
Names
Chinese name(s):	尤字旁 yóuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	曲足/まげあし mageashi 大の曲足/だいのまげあし dainomageashi 尢繞/おうにょう ōnyō
Hangul:	절음발이 jeoreumbari
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

尢 is also the 34th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. 兀 and 尣 are the two associated indexing components affiliated to the principal indexing component 尢.

Evolution

• Oracle bone script character
• Bronze script character
• Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	尢 尣
+1	尤
+3	尥 尦
+4	尨 尩 尪 尫 尬
+6	尮 尯
+9	尰 就
+10	尲 尳 尴SC (=尷)
+12	尵
+14	尶 尷

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5C22