Radical 129

聿
← 128
Radical 129 (U+2F80)
130 →
聿 (U+807F) "brush"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yù
Bopomofo:ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yuh
Wade–Giles:yü4
Cantonese Yale:waht
Jyutping:wat6
Japanese Kana:イツ itsu / イチ ichi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:율 yul
Names
Japanese name(s):筆旁/ふでづくり fudezukuri
Hangul:붓 but
Stroke order animation

Radical 129 or radical brush (聿部) meaning "brush" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

聿 is also the 145th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 肀 and ⺻ being its associated indexing components.

Evolution

A hand (又) holding a brush (𰀁).

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0聿 肀
+4肁 肂 肃SC (=肅)
+5粛JP (=肅)
+7肄 肅 肆
+8肇 肈 (=肇)

Literature