Radical 19

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Pinyin: lì Wade–Giles: li4 Jyutping: lik6		Bopomofo: ㄌㄧˋ Cantonese Yale: lik6 Hiragana: リョク ryokuちから chikara

Radical 19 meaning "power" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 163 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.

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

References

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