Radical 79

殳
← 78 Radical 79 (U+2F4E) 80 →
殳 (U+6BB3) "weapon, lance"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shū
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄨ
Wade–Giles:	shu1
Cantonese Yale:	syùh
Jyutping:	syu4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	sû
Japanese Kana:	シュ shu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	수 su
Names
Japanese name(s):	殳/ほこ hoko 殳旁/ほこづくり hokozukuri ル又/るまた rumata
Hangul:	칠 chil
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Radical 79 or radical weapon (殳部) meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

殳 is also the 92nd 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	殳
+5	殴SC/JP (=毆) 段 殶
+6	殷 殸 殹 殺
+7	殻JP/GB TC/variant (=殼)
+8	殼 殽
+9	殾 殿 毀 毁SC (=毀) 毂SC (=轂 -> 車)
+10	毃 毄
+11	毅 毆
+12	毇 毈
+15	毉
+19	毊

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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