Radical 87
| 爪 | |
|---|---|
| Radical 87 (U+2F56) | |
| 爪 (U+722A) "claw" | |
| Pinyin: | zhǎo |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓㄠˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | chao3 |
| Jyutping: | zaau2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | jaau2 |
| Hiragana: | ソウ, つめ sou, tsume |
| Kanji: | 爪 tsume |
| Hangul: | 손톱 sontop |
| Sino-Korean: | 조 cho |
| Stroke order animation | |
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Radical 87 meaning "claw", "nail" or "talon" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 36 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Characters with Radical 87

seal script character
| strokes | character |
|---|---|
| without additional strokes | 爪 爫 |
| 4 additional strokes | 爬 爭 |
| 5 additional strokes | 爮 爯 爰 |
| 6 additional strokes | 爱 |
| 8 additional strokes | 爲 |
| 10 additional strokes | 爳 |
| 11 additional strokes | 爴 |
| 14 additional strokes | 爵 |
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.
- 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.
External links
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