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Radical 18
Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Radical 18 or radical knife (刀部) meaning "knife" is one of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.
When appearing at the right side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 刂.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 377 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
刀 is also the 22nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 刂 and ⺈, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 刀.
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Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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Sinogram
As an isolated character it is one of the kyōiku kanji or a kanji taught in second grade.[1]
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