Radical 203

黑
← 202
Radical 203 (U+2FCA)
204 →
黑 (U+9ED1) "black"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:hēi
Bopomofo:ㄏㄟ
Wade–Giles:hei1
Cantonese Yale:haak1, hak1
Jyutping:haak1, hak1
Japanese Kana:コク koku (on'yomi)
くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:흑 heuk
Hán-Việt:hắc
Names
Japanese name(s):黒/くろ kuro
Hangul:검을 geomeu
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Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0黑 黒JP (=黑)
+3墨SC/TC/KO/墨JP 黓
+4黔 黕 黖 黗 默
+5黚 黛 黜 黝 點
+6黟 黠 黡SC (=黶)
+7黢 黣
+8黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩SC (=黷) 黪SC (=黲)
+9黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
+10黰 黱
+11黲 黳 黴
+13黵
+14黶
+15黷
+16黸

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