Radical 203

黑
Radical 203 (U+2FCA)
黑 (U+9ED1) "black"
Pinyin:	hēi
Bopomofo:	ㄏㄟ
Wade–Giles:	hei1
Jyutping:	haak1, hak1
Cantonese Yale:	haak1, hak1
Hiragana:	コク koku くろ, くろい kuro, kuroi
Kanji:	黒 kuro
Hangul:	검을 geomeul
Sino-Korean:	흑 heuk
Stroke order animation

Radical 203 meaning "black" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 203

seal script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	黑 黒
3 additional strokes	黓
4 additional strokes	黔 黕 黖 黗 默 黙
5 additional strokes	黚 黛 黜 黝 點
6 additional strokes	黟 黠 黡
7 additional strokes	黢 黣
8 additional strokes	黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩 黪
9 additional strokes	黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
10 additional strokes	黰 黱
11 additional strokes	黲 黳 黴
13 additional strokes	黵
14 additional strokes	黶
15 additional strokes	黷
16 additional strokes	黸

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

• Unihan Database - U+9ED1