Radical 121

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Radical 121 or radical jar (缶部) meaning "jar" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

缶

← 120

Radical 121 (U+2F78)

122 →

缶 (U+7F36) "jar"

Pronunciations

fǒu

ㄈㄡˇ

fou3

fau2

fau2

フ fu / フウ fū (on'yomi)
ほとぎ hotogi (kun'yomi)

부 bu

Names

Japanese name(s):

缶ほとぎ
(Left) 缶偏/ほとぎへん hotogihen
缶/かん kan

장군 janggun

Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

缶 is also the 133rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Japanese, 缶 is the shinjitai form of 罐, but the two characters are historically irrelevant.

Evolution

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.

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