Radical 79

殳
Radical 79 (U+2F4E)
殳 (U+6BB3) "weapon, lance"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shū
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄨ
Wade–Giles:	shu1
Cantonese Yale:	syu4
Jyutping:	syu4
Japanese Kana:	シュ, ほこ shu, hoko
Sino-Korean:	수 su
Names
Japanese name(s):	殳旁 hokozukiri
Hangul:	칠 chil
Stroke order animation

Radical 79 meaning "weapon" or "lance" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 79

seal script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	殳
5 additional strokes	殴 段 殶
6 additional strokes	殷 殸 殹 殺
7 additional strokes	殻
8 additional strokes	殼 殽
9 additional strokes	殾 殿 毀 毁 毂
10 additional strokes	毃 毄
11 additional strokes	毅 毆
12 additional strokes	毇 毈
15 additional strokes	毉
19 additional strokes	毊

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |o_year= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
• Lunde, Ken (Jan. 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

External links

• Unihan Database - U+6BB3

Gallery

• 
  Yari iron
• 
  Image depicting the stroke order of the character Radical 79 character