Radical 168 or radical long () meaning "long" or "" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
, the simplified form of , is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form and the traditional form listed as its associated indexing components.
Evolution
Derived characters
Strokes Characters +0 SC (=長) +3 +4 +5 +8 +12 +14
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 長 is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade.
References
Further reading
External links
Unihan Database - U+9577