Radical 175 or radical wrong () meaning "" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 171st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

It is etymologically unrelated to 韭.

Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +4 +7 +11

Variant forms This radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form . This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.

Kanji In the Japanese educational system this is one of the Kyōiku kanji. Students are required to learn it in the fifth grade.

References

Literature

External links

Unihan Database - U+975E