Radical 30

← 29 Radical 30 (U+2F1D) 31 →
(U+53E3) "mouth"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:kǒu
Bopomofo:ㄎㄡˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:koou
Wade–Giles:kʻou3
Cantonese Yale:háu
Jyutping:hau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:kháu (col.)
khó͘ (lit.)
Japanese Kana:コー kō (on'yomi)
くち kuchi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:구 ku
Names
Chinese name(s):(Side)口字旁 kǒuzìpáng

(Top)口字頭 kǒuzìtǒu

(Bottom)口字底 kǒuzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):口偏/くちへん kuchihen
Hangul:입 ip
Stroke order animation

Radical 30 or radical mouth (口部) meaning 'mouth' is one of 31 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 3 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,146 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

is also the 37th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 (also SC form of -> ) SC/JP (= -> ) SC (=嘆) SC (=嘰)
+3 (also SC form of -> ) (also SC form of 嚇) SC (=呂) SC (=嗎)
+4 (also SC form of 噸) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC (=吳) JP (=吳) SC (=吶) (=吞) SC (=嘸) SC (=囈) SC (=嘔) SC (=嚦) SC (=唄) SC (=員) SC (=咼) SC (=嗆) SC (=嗚)
+5 JP (=咒) (=和) SC (=嚨) SC (=嚀) SC (=噝) GB TC variant
+6 Traditional/JP variant SC (= -> ) SC (=啞) SC (=噠) SC (=嘵) SC (=嗶) SC (=噦) SC (=噲) SC (=噥) SC (=喲)
+7 SC/JP/variant (= -> ) JP (=啞) (=啓= -> ) SC (=嘜) KO SC (=嗊) KO SC (=嘮) SC (=啢) SC (=嗩) SC (=喚)
+8 JP/GB TC (= -> ) (=啓= -> ) (= -> ) (=哲) SC (嘖) SC (=嗇) SC (=囀) SC (=嚙= -> ) SC (=嘓) SC (=囉) SC (=嘽) SC (=嘯) SC variant JP
+9 (=哲) TC variant (=咱) SC/TC/KO Kangxi (=唧) Kangxi/JP/KO (=喻) JP (= -> ) SC (=噴) KO SC (=嘍) SC (=嚳) SC variant SC variant SC variant SC/HK variant
+10 TC variant TC variant TC variant TC variant SC (=囁) KO SC (=噯) SC variant GB TC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+11 TC variant Traditional variant TC variant TC variant TC variant SC/JP (=噓) (=嘎) SC (=嚶) JP (=嘯) (=嗥)
+12 (=嗥) (=器) JP (=嚙) SC (=嚕) JP GB TC variant SC variant GB TC variant SC variant
+13 SC/TC/KO (= -> ) Traditional variant TC variant Traditional variant (= -> ) TC variant JP SC variant SC variant SC variant
+14 TC variant TC variant TC variant GB TC variant
+15 Traditional variant JP (=囊) SC (=囂)
+16 GB TC variant
+17 Traditional variant GB TC variant SC variant SC variant
+18 Traditional variant TC variant TC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+19 Traditional variant Traditional variant JP
+20 GB TC variant (= -> ) GB TC variant
+21 Traditional variant Traditional variant
+25
+28 𡆟

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

  • 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.
  • Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2