Radical 143
Radical 143 or radical blood (血部) meaning "blood" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 血 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 
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| 血 (U+8840) "blood" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | xuè | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄩㄝˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | hsüeh4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | hyut3 | |
| Jyutping: | hyut3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ケツ ketsu / ケチ kechi (on'yomi) ち chi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 혈 hyeol | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 血/ち chi (Left) 血偏/ちへん chihen | |
| Hangul: | 피 pi | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
血 is also the 138th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
    
 Oracle bone script character Oracle bone script character
 Large seal script character Large seal script character
 Small seal script character Small seal script character
Derived characters
    
| Strokes | Characters | 
|---|---|
| +0 | 血 | 
| +3 | 衁 衂 (=衄) | 
| +4 | 衃 衄 | 
| +5 | 衅SC (=釁 -> 酉) | 
| +6 | 衆JP/KO/GB TC (=眾 -> 目) 衇 (=脈 -> 肉) 衈 衉 | 
| +15 | 衊 | 
| +18 | 衋 | 
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.
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