Radical 29

Radical 29 or radical again () meaning "and", "again" or "right hand" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 91 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 24th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

The radical character 's ancient form is a pictogram of a right hand from which the modern Chinese character (right) was derived. Though 又 (again) as a modern Chinese character no longer represents the meaning of "right", the implication of "hand" is preserved in some Chinese characters that fall under radical 29.

Compare 力, , 彐, 爪 and 手; unrelated to 夂, 夊 and 文. Component of 寸, 支, 攴-攵, 殳, 父, and 皮. Sometimes written as 彐 such as in and .

Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +1 +2 SC/JP (= -> 隹) JP (= -> 攴) +3 +4 SC (= -> 癶 / -> 髟) +5 +6 SC (= -> 言) +7 SC/JP/variant (=/ -> 攴) +8 +11 SC (= -> 田) +14 +16

Sinogram As an independent sinogram it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.

Radical 29

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