Radical 186

Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

香
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香 (U+9999) "fragrant"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	xiāng
Bopomofo:	ㄒㄧㄤ
Wade–Giles:	hsiang1
Cantonese Yale:	heung1
Jyutping:	hoeng1
Japanese Kana:	コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi) か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	향 hyang
Hán-Việt:	hương
Names
Japanese name(s):	かおり kaori 匂い香/においコウ nioikō
Hangul:	향기 hyanggi
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

香 is also the 183rd 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	香
+4	馚
+5	馛 馜 馝
+7	馞 馟 馠
+8	馡 馢 馣
+9	馤 馥
+10	馦 馧
+11	馨
+12	馩
+14	馪
+18	馫 (=馨)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/香

Sinogram

As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1]

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.^[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).^[2]