Radical 143

Radical 143 or radical blood (血部) meaning "blood" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

血
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血 (U+8840) "blood"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	xuè
Bopomofo:	ㄒㄩㄝˋ
Wade–Giles:	hsüeh4
Cantonese Yale:	hyut3
Jyutping:	hyut3
Japanese Kana:	ケツ ketsu / ケチ kechi (on'yomi) ち chi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	혈 hyeol
Names
Japanese name(s):	血/ち chi (Left) 血偏/ちへん chihen
Hangul:	피 pi
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

血 is also the 138th 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
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	血
+3	衁 衂 (=衄)
+4	衃 衄
+5	衅SC (=釁 -> 酉)
+6	衆JP/KO/GB TC (=眾 -> 目) 衇 (=脈 -> 肉) 衈 衉
+15	衊
+18	衋

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/血

Sinogram

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