Radical 3

This article is about the Chinese character component. For other uses, see Square root of 3.

Radical 3 or radical dot (丶部) meaning "to indicate an end"^[2] is one of six of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.

丶
← 2 Radical 3 (U+2F02) 4 →
丶 (U+4E36) "dot"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zhǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄓㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	chu3
Cantonese Yale:	jyú
Jyutping:	zyu2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	tú
Japanese Kana:	チュ chu (on'yomi) てん ten (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	주 ju
Hán-Việt:	chủ
Names
Chinese name(s):	點/点 diǎn
Japanese name(s):	点 ten ちょぼ chobo[1]
Hangul:	점 jeom
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are only 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

丶 is also the 3rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	丶 (zhǔ "dot")
+1	丷KO (Korean kwukyel note)
+2	丸SC/JP/丸TC (wán "pellet")
+3	丹 (dān "vermillion"), 为SC (=爲 -> 爪 / 為 -> 火 wéi "to do, to be; for")
+4	主 (zhǔ "owner, master; main") 丼 (dǎn onomatopoeia / =井 -> 二 jǐng "water well")
+7	丽SC (=麗 -> 鹿 lì "pretty, lovely")
+8	举SC (=舉 -> 臼 jǔ "raise, recommend")

In calligraphy

The dot stroke as in 永

The only stroke in Radical 3, known as 點/点 diǎn "dot", is called 側/侧 cè in the eight principles of the character 永 (永字八法 Yǒngzì Bāfǎ) which are the basis of Chinese calligraphy.