Radical 57

"弓" redirects here. For other uses, see 弓 (disambiguation).

弓
Radical 57 (U+2F38)
弓 (U+5F13) "bow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gōng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	gong
Wade–Giles:	kung1
Cantonese Yale:	gūng
Jyutping:	gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kiong
Japanese Kana:	kyū, yumi キュウ, ゆみ
Sino-Korean:	궁 gung
Names
Japanese name(s):	弓偏 yumihen
Hangul:	활 hwal
Stroke order animation

Radical 57 meaning "bow" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 165 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 57

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large Seal Script character
• 
  Small Seal Script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	弓
1 additional stroke	弔 引 弖
2 additional strokes	弗 弘
3 additional strokes	弙 弚 弛 弜
4 additional strokes	弝 弞 弟 张
5 additional strokes	弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪
6 additional strokes	弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯
7 additional strokes	弰 弱 弲 弳
8 additional strokes	弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹
9 additional strokes	强 弻 弼 弽 弾
10 additional strokes	弿 彀 彁 彂
11 additional strokes	彃 彄 彅
12 additional strokes	彆 彇 彈 彉
13 additional strokes	彊 彋
14 additional strokes	彌
15 additional strokes	彍
19 additional strokes	彎
20 additional strokes	彏

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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5F13