Radical 91

片
← 90 Radical 91 (U+2F5A) 92 →
片 (U+7247) "slice"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	piàn
Bopomofo:	ㄆㄧㄢˋ
Wade–Giles:	p'ien4
Cantonese Yale:	pin
Jyutping:	pin3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	phiàn
Japanese Kana:	ヘン hen (on'yomi) かた kata (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	편 pyeon
Names
Chinese name(s):	片字旁 piànzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	片/かた kata 片偏/かたへん katahen
Hangul:	조각 jogak
Stroke order animation

Radical 91 or radical slice (片部) meaning "slice" or "film" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

片 is also the 84th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	片
+4	版
+5	牉 牊
+8	牋 牌 牍SC (=牘)
+9	牎 牏 牐 牑 牒
+10	牓 牔
+11	牕 牖 牗
+15	牘

Variant forms

This radical character takes different forms in Taiwan and in other regions. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters, the second (vertical) stroke and the third (horizontal) stroke share the same ending point, while in other standards, the second stroke ends at the middle of the third stroke.

Chinese (Mainland China)	Chinese (Taiwan)	Japanese
片	片	片
版	版	版

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 fifth 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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