Radical 118
| 竹 | ||
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| 竹 (U+7AF9) "bamboo" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zhú | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓㄨˊ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | jwu | |
| Wade–Giles: | chu2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | juk1 | |
| Jyutping: | zuk1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | チク chiku (on'yomi) たけ take (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 죽 juk | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 竹字頭/竹字头 zhúzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 竹/たけ take 竹冠/たけかんむり takekanmuri | |
| Hangul: | 대 dae | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 118 or radical bamboo (竹部) meaning "bamboo" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. The radical character usually appears at the top of characters and transforms into 𥫗.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, 953 characters (out of 49,030) are found under this radical.
竹 is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𥫗 being its associated indexing component.