Radical 103

疋
← 102 Radical 103 (U+2F66) 104 →
疋 (U+758B) "bolt of cloth"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	pǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄆㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:	p'i3
Cantonese Yale:	pat1
Jyutping:	pat1
Japanese Kana:	ショ sho / ソ so / ガ ga / ゲ ge (on'yomi) あし ashi / ひき hiki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	소 so
Names
Japanese name(s):	疋/ひき hiki (𤴔) 疋偏/ひきへん hikihen
Hangul:	발 bal
Stroke order animation

Radical 103 or radical bolt of cloth (疋部) meaning "bolt of cloth" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. When appearing at the left side of a character, it transforms into 𤴔.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

疋 is also the 118th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𤴔 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	疋
+3	疌
+5	疍
+6	疏
+7	疎
+9	疐 疑

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.

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