Radical 207

鼓
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鼓 (U+9F13) "drum"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	ku3
Cantonese Yale:	gu2
Jyutping:	gu2
Japanese Kana:	コ, ク ko, ku つづみ tsuzumi
Sino-Korean:	고 go
Hán-Việt:	cổ
Names
Japanese name(s):	鼓 tsuzumi
Hangul:	북 buk
Stroke order animation

Radical 207 meaning "drum" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 207

strokes	character
without additional strokes	鼓 鼔
5 additional strokes	鼕 鼖
6 additional strokes	鼗
8 additional strokes	鼘 鼙 鼚 鼛
10 additional strokes	鼜
11 additional strokes	鼝 鼞
12 additional strokes	鼟

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+9F13

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