Radical 148

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|148|uni=89D2

|meaning= horn

|pny= jiǎo

|bopo= ㄐㄧㄠˇ

|wade= chiao3

|jyutping= gok3, luk6

|yale= gok, luhk

|cn=

|onyomi= カク kaku

|kunyomi= つの tsuno / かど kado

|jp= 角/つの tsuno
角偏/つのへん/かくへん tsunohen/kakuhen

|hang= 뿔 ppul

|hanja= 각 gak

}}

Radical 148 or radical horn ({{Lang|zh-Hant|角部}}) meaning "horn" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 158 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|角}} is also the 165th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:角-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:角-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:角-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:角-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters
+0	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|角}}
+2	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觓}} {{Linktext\|觔}} (={{Linktext\|斤}} -> 斤 / {{Linktext\|筋}} -> 竹)
+4	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觕}} (={{Linktext\|粗}} -> 米) {{Linktext\|觖}} {{Linktext\|觗}} {{Linktext\|觘}} {{Linktext\|觙}}
+5	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觚}} {{Linktext\|觛}} {{Linktext\|觝}} {{Linktext\|觞}}^SC (=觴)
+6	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觜}} {{Linktext\|觟}} {{Linktext\|觠}} {{Linktext\|觡}} {{Linktext\|觢}} {{Linktext\|解}} {{Linktext\|觤}} {{Linktext\|觥}} {{Linktext\|触}}^SC/JP (=觸) {{Linktext\|觧}} (=解 / {{Linktext\|鮮}} -> 魚)
+7	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觨}} {{Linktext\|觩}} {{Linktext\|觪}} {{Linktext\|觫}}
+8	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觬}} {{Linktext\|觭}} {{Linktext\|觮}} {{Linktext\|觯}}^SC (=觶)
+9	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觰}} {{Linktext\|觱}}
+10	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觲}} {{Linktext\|觳}}
+11	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觴}} {{Linktext\|鵤}}
+12	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觵}} {{Linktext\|觶}}
+13	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觷}} {{Linktext\|觸}} {{Linktext\|觹}}
+14	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觺}}
+15	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觻}} {{Linktext\|觼}}
+16	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觽}} {{Linktext\|觾}}
+18	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|觿}}

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages.

角-order.gif|Stroke order in Traditional Chinese

角-jorder.gif|Stroke order in Japanese

Regular Style CJKV Radical 148 (1).svg|Simplified Chinese xin zixing

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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a second grade kanji.

References

Literature

{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}