Radical 179

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Pinyin: jiǔ Wade–Giles: chiu3 Jyutping: gau2		Bopomofo: ㄐㄧㄡ Cantonese Yale: gau2 Hiragana: キュウ, にら kyū, nira

Radical 179 meaning "leek" is 1 of 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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.

References

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