Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
止 is also the 73rd 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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Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 止 |
| +1 | 正 |
| +2 | 此 |
| +3 | 步 |
| +4 | 武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步) |
| +5 | 歪 歫 |
| +6 | 歬 (=前 -> 刀) 歭 |
| +8 | 歮 |
| +9 | 歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲) |
| +10 | 歴JP (=歷) |
| +11 | 歵 歶 |
| +12 | 歷 |
| +14 | 歸 |
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. It is a second grade kanji.
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.