Radical 59

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Pinyin: shān Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan Cantonese Yale: sāam		Bopomofo: ㄕㄢ Wade–Giles: shan Jyutping: saam1

Radical 59 meaning "bristle" or "beard" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 62 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, 1987: 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

Radical 59 Wikipedia

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