Radical 148

Radical 148 or radical horn (角部) meaning "horn" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

角
← 147 Radical 148 (U+2F93) 149 →
角 (U+89D2) "horn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jiǎo
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄠˇ
Wade–Giles:	chiao3
Cantonese Yale:	gok, luhk
Jyutping:	gok3, luk6
Japanese Kana:	カク kaku (on'yomi) つの tsuno / かど kado (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	각 gak
Names
Japanese name(s):	角/つの tsuno 角偏/つのへん/かくへん tsunohen/kakuhen
Hangul:	뿔 ppul
Stroke order animation

"角" redirects here. For the unit of the Chinese currency, see Jiao (currency).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 158 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

角 is also the 165th 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	角
+2	觓 觔 (=斤 -> 斤 / 筋 -> 竹)
+4	觕 (=粗 -> 米) 觖 觗 觘 觙
+5	觚 觛 觝 觞SC (=觴)
+6	觜 觟 觠 觡 觢 解 觤 觥 触SC/JP (=觸) 觧 (=解 / 鮮 -> 魚)
+7	觨 觩 觪 觫
+8	觬 觭 觮 觯SC (=觶)
+9	觰 觱
+10	觲 觳
+11	觴 鵤
+12	觵 觶
+13	觷 觸 觹
+14	觺
+15	觻 觼
+16	觽 觾
+18	觿

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/角

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages.

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  Stroke order in Traditional Chinese
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  Stroke order in Japanese
• 
  Simplified Chinese xin zixing

Sinogram

The radical is also used 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]