Radical 82

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Pinyin: máo Wade–Giles: mao2 Jyutping: mou4		Bopomofo: ㄇㄠˊ Cantonese Yale: mòuh Hiragana: ボウ, モウ bou, mou け ke

Radical 82 meaning "fur" or "hair" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes. The character is used to write the Chinese family name Mao, and often refers to the Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 211 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

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