Radical 155

赤
← 154 Radical 155 (U+2F9A) 156 →
赤 (U+8D64) "red, bare"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chì
Bopomofo:	ㄔˋ
Wade–Giles:	ch'ih4
Cantonese Yale:	chek3, chik3
Jyutping:	cek3, cik3
Japanese Kana:	セキ seki / シャク shaku (on'yomi) あか aka (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	적 jeok
Names
Japanese name(s):	赤/あか aka 赤偏/あかへん akahen
Hangul:	붉을 bulgeul
Stroke order animation

Radical 155 or radical red (赤部) meaning "red" or "bare" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

赤 is also the 151st 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	赤
+4	赥 赦 赧
+6	赨 赩 赪SC (=赬)
+7	赫
+9	赬 赭 赮
+10	赯

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji^[1]

References

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.

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