Radical 4

丿
← 3
Radical 4 (U+2F03)
5 →
丿 (U+4E3F) "slash"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:piě
Bopomofo:ㄆ一ㄝˇ
Wade–Giles:p'ieh3
Cantonese Yale:pit
Jyutping:pit3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:phia̍t
Japanese Kana:ヘツ hetsu (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:별 byeol
Hán-Việt:phiệt
Names
Chinese name(s):撇 piě
Japanese name(s):ノ no
はらいぼう haraibō
Hangul:삐침 ppichim
Stroke order animation

Radical 4 or radical slash (丿部) meaning "slash" or "bend" is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 33 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

It is highly similar to the Japanese katakana, no (ノ), thus colloquially referred to as "no" in Japanese.

丿 is also the 4th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0丿 乀 乁
+1乂 乃 乄JP
+2久 乆 (=久) 乇 么SC (= 麼 -> 广) 义SC (=義 -> 羊) 乊 之 乡SC (=鄉 -> 邑)
+3乌SC (=烏 -> 火) 乏
+4乍 乎 乐SC (=樂 -> 木)
+5丢 眾 乒 乓 乔SC (=喬 -> 口)
+6乕 (=虎 -> 虍)
+7乖
+8乗JP (=乘)
+9乘

In calligraphy

The only left-falling stroke in Radical 4, known as 撇 piě, is basic to Chinese calligraphy. It has two different forms, 掠 lüè and 啄 zhuó, in the eight principles of 永 (永字八法 Yǒngzì Bāfǎ).

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