Radical 57

"弓" redirects here. For other uses, see 弓 (disambiguation).

Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

弓
← 56 Radical 57 (U+2F38) 58 →
弓 (U+5F13) "bow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gōng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	gong
Wade–Giles:	kung1
Cantonese Yale:	gūng
Jyutping:	gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kiong
Japanese Kana:	キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	궁 gung
Names
Chinese name(s):	弓字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen
Hangul:	활 hwal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.

弓 is also the 53rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	弓
+1	弔 引 弖
+2	弗 弘
+3	弙 弚 弛 弜
+4	弝 弞 弟 张SC (張)
+5	弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪
+6	弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯SC/弯JP (=彎)
+7	弰 弱 弲 弳SC (=弳)
+8	弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹SC (=彈)
+9	强 弻 弼 弽 弾
+10	弿 彀 彁"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶)
+11	彃 彄 彅JP
+12	彆 彇 彈 彉
+13	彊 (=強) 彋
+14	彌
+15	彍
+19	彎
+20	彏

Sinogram

As an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]