Radical 179

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|179|uni=97ED

|meaning= leek

|pny= jiǔ

|bopo= ㄐㄧㄡˇ

|wade= chiu3

|jyutping= gau2

|yale= gau2

|cn=

|onyomi= キュウ kyū

|kunyomi= にら nira

|jp= 韭/にら nira

|hang= 부추 buchu

|hanja= 구 gu

|hanviet= cửu

}}

Radical 179 or radical leek ({{Lang|zh-Hant|韭部}}) meaning "leek" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=97ED|title=Unihan data for U+97ED|publisher=Unicode Consortium|access-date=1 April 2011}}

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

{{Lang|zh-Hans|韭}} is also the 181st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters
+0	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韭}}
+4	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韮}} (=韭)
+6	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韯}}
+7	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韰}}
+8	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韱}}
+10	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|韲}} (={{Linktext\|齏}} -> 齊)

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 }}
{{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}

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