Radical 82

毛
← 81 Radical 82 (U+2F51) 83 →
毛 (U+6BDB) "fur, hair"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	máo
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄠˊ
Wade–Giles:	mao2
Cantonese Yale:	mòuh
Jyutping:	mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	mô͘
Japanese Kana:	モウ mō ボウ bō (on'yomi) け ke (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	모 mo
Names
Chinese name(s):	毛字底 máozìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	毛/け ke
Hangul:	털 teol
Stroke order animation

Radical 82 or radical fur (毛部) meaning "fur" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 211 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

毛 is also the 82nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

The character is a Chinese family name, and often refers to the Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	毛
+3	毜 毝
+4	毞 毟
+5	毠 毡
+6	毢 毣 毤 毥 毦 毧 毨 毩 毪
+7	毫 毬 毭 毮
+8	毯 毰 毱 毲 毳 毴 毵SC (=毿) 毶SC (=𣯶)
+9	毷 毸 毹 毺 毻 毼 毽
+10	毾
+11	毿 氀 氁 氂
+12	氃 氄 氅 氆 氇SC (=氌)
+13	氈 氉 氊
+14	氋
+15	氌
+18	氍
+22	氎

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 second 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.
• 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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