Radical 94

犬
犬
犬 (U+72AC) "dog"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	quǎn
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄩㄢˇ
Wade–Giles:	ch'üan3
Cantonese Yale:	hyún
Jyutping:	hyun2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	khián
Japanese Kana:	ケン ken (on'yomi); いぬ inu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	견 gyeon
Names
Chinese name(s):	(犭) 反犬旁 fǎnquǎnpáng
Japanese name(s):	犬/いぬ inu; (犭) 獣偏/けものへん kemonohen
Hangul:	개 gae; (犭) 개사슴록변 gaesaseumnokbyeon
Stroke order animation

Radical 94, meaning "dog" (犬部) is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

犬 is also the 66th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 犭 being its associated indexing component.

In Japanese, 犬 is a Kanji symbol, and its Hiragana version is "いぬ" (inu).

犬, just like most Kanji, is used in both Japanese and Chinese languages.

The symbol is pronounced "quăn" in Chinese.

Evolution

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	犬犭^{Component only}
+1	犮
+2	犯犰
+3	犱犲犳犴犵状^SC/JP (=狀) 犷^SC (=獷) 犸^SC (=獁)
+4	犹^SC (=猶) 犺犻犼犽犾犿狀狁狂狃狄狅狆狇狈^SC (=狽)
+5	狉狊狋狌狍狎狏狐狑狒狓狔狕狖狗狘狙狚狛狜狝^SC (=獮) 狞^SC (=獰)
+6	狟狠狡狢狣狤狥狦狧狨狩狪狫独^SC/JP (=獨) 狭^SC/JP (=狹) 狮^SC (=獅) 狯^SC (=獪) 狰^SC (=猙) 狱^SC (=獄) 狲^SC (=猻)
+7	倐狳狴狵狶狷狸狹狺狻狼狽狾狿猀猁猂猃^SC (=獫)
+8	猄猅猆猇猈猉猊猋猌猍猎^SC (=獵) 猏猐猑猒猓猔猕^SC (=獼) 猖猗猘猙猚猛猜猝猞猟^JP (=獵) 猠猡^SC (=玀) 猪^SC/JP (=豬) 猫^{SC/JP variant} (=貓 -> 豸) 猧^{GB TC variant}
+9	猢猣猤猥猦猧^{Traditional variant} 猨猩猬猭献^SC/JP (=獻) 猯猰猱猲猳猴猵猶猷猸猹
+10	猺猻猼猽猾猿獀獁獂獃獄獅獆獇獈獉獊獓^{SC variant} 獒^{SC variant} 獏^{SC variant}
+11	獌獍獎獏^{TC variant} 獐獑獒^{TC variant} 獓^{TC variant} 獔獕獚^{SC variant}
+12	獋 (=獋) 獖獗獘獙獚^{TC variant} 獛獜獝獞獟獠獡獢獣^JP (=獸) 獤獦^{SC variant}
+13	獥獦^{TC variant} 獧獨獩獪獫獬獭^SC (=獺) 獲^{JP/GB TC variant}
+14	獮獯獰獱獲^{Traditional variant} 獳獴^{SC variant} 獷^{GB TC variant}
+15	獴^{TC variant} 獵獶獷^{Traditional variant} 獸
+16	獹獺獻
+17	獼獽獾^{SC variant}
+18	獾^{TC variant} 獿
+19	玀
+20	玁玂玃

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

^ ^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.

Literature

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.
Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

Unihan Database - U+72AC

[:0-1] "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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