Radical 74

Not to be confused with Radical 130, the "meat radical", where the side radical is written as ⺼.

月
Radical 74 (U+2F49)
月 (U+6708) "moon, month"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yuè
Bopomofo:	ㄩㄝˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yueh
Wade–Giles:	yüeh4
Cantonese Yale:	yuht
Jyutping:	jyut6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	goa̍t
Japanese Kana:	ゲツ, ガツ getsu, gatsu つき tsuki
Sino-Korean:	월 wol
Names
Japanese name(s):	月偏 tsukihen
Hangul:	달 dal
Stroke order animation

Radical 74 meaning "moon" or "month" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 69 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 74

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

strokes	character
without additional strokes	月
2 additional strokes	有
4 additional strokes	朊 朋 朌 服 肭
5 additional strokes	朎 朏 朐 朑 胙
6 additional strokes	朒 朓 朔 朕 朗 朗
7 additional strokes	朖 朘 朙 朚 望
8 additional strokes	朜 朝 朞 期
9 additional strokes	朠 朡
10 additional strokes	朢
11 additional strokes	膤
12 additional strokes	朣 朤 朥
14 additional strokes	朦
16 additional strokes	朧

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+6708