Radical 55

Radical 55 or radical two hands (廾部) meaning "two hands", "twenty" or "arch" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

廾
← 54 Radical 55 (U+2F36) 56 →
廾 (U+5EFE) "two hands, arch"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gǒng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥˇ
Wade–Giles:	kung3
Cantonese Yale:	gúng
Jyutping:	gung2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kióng
Japanese Kana:	キョウ kyō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	공 gong
Names
Chinese name(s):	弄字底 nòngzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	拱き/こまぬき komanuki 廿脚/にじゅうあし nijūashi
Hangul:	들 teul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

廾 is also the 32nd 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	廾
+1	廿 开SC (=開 -> 門)
+2	弁 (also JP form of 辨 -> 辛 / 瓣 -> 瓜 / 辯 -> 辛)
+3	异SC/variant (=異 -> 田)
+4	弃SC/variant (=棄 -> 木) 弄 弅
+5	弆
+6	弇 弈
+7	弉
+12	弊

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5EFE