Radical 97

瓜
← 96
Radical 97 (U+2F60)
98 →
瓜 (U+74DC) "melon"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:guā
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄚ
Wade–Giles:kua1
Cantonese Yale:gwā
Jyutping:gwaa1
Japanese Kana:カ ka (on'yomi)
うり uri (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:과 gwa
Names
Chinese name(s):瓜字旁 guāzìpáng
Japanese name(s):瓜/うり uri
Hangul:오이 oi
Stroke order animation

Radical 97 or radical melon (瓜部) meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

瓜 is also the 113th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Unrelated to 厶 and 爪.

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0瓜
+3瓝
+5瓞 瓟
+6瓠
+8瓡
+11瓢
+14瓣
+17瓤
+19瓥

Variant forms

There is a design nuance between the form of 瓜 in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and 瓜 became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.

Chinese
(Mainland China)
Chinese
(Taiwan)
Modern Japanese
瓜 瓜 瓜
瓞 瓞 瓞

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