Radical 78

Radical 78 or radical death (歹部) meaning "death", "decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

歹
← 77 Radical 78 (U+2F4D) 79 →
歹 (U+6B79) "death, decay"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	dǎi
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄞˇ
Wade–Giles:	tai3
Cantonese Yale:	dáai
Jyutping:	aat3 daai2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	tái
Japanese Kana:	ガツ gatsu (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	알 al
Names
Chinese name(s):	歹字旁 dǎizìpáng
Japanese name(s):	かばねへん kabanehen 歹/がつ gatsu 歹偏/がつへん gatsuhen 死構/しにがまえ shinigamae 一タ偏/いちたへん ichitahen 一夕偏/いっせきへん ichisekihen
Hangul:	뼈앙상할 ppyeo angsanghal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

歹 is also the 67th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 歺 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	歹 歺
+2	死
+3	歼SC (=殲)
+4	歽 歾 歿 殀 殁SC (=歿)
+5	殂 殃 殄 殅 殆 殇SC (=殤)
+6	殈 殉 殊 残SC/残JP (=殘)
+7	殌 殍 殎 殏 殐 殑 殒SC (=殞) 殓SC (=殮)
+8	殔 殕 殖SC/TC/殖Kangxi/JP/KO 殗 殘 殙 殚SC (=殫)
+9	殛 殜
+10	殝 殞 殟 殠 殡SC (=殯)
+11	殢 殣 殤 殥 殦
+12	殧 殨 殩 殪 殫
+13	殬 殭 殮
+14	殯
+15	殰 殱 (=殲)
+17	殲

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+6B79