Radical 144

Chinese character radical

行

← 143

Radical 144 (U+2F8F)

145 →

行 (U+884C) "go, do"

Pronunciations

Pinyin:

xíng, háng

Bopomofo:

ㄒㄧㄥˋ, ㄏㄤˊ

Wade–Giles:

hsing2

Cantonese Yale:

haang4, hang4,
hang6, hong4

Jyutping:

haang4, hang4,
hang6, hong4

Japanese Kana:

コウ kō / アン an (on'yomi)
ゆ-く yu-ku / おこな-う okona-u (kun'yomi)

Sino-Korean:

행 haeng

Names

Japanese name(s):

行構/ぎょうがまえ/ゆきがまえ gyōgamae/yukigamae

Hangul:

다닐 danil
행실 haengsil

Stroke order animation

Radical 144 or radical walk enclosure (行部) meaning "go" or "do" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 53 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

行 is not used as an indexing component (radical) in Simplified Chinese. Characters with this radical are classified under radical 彳 (No. 60 in the Kangxi Dictionary; No. 41 in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components) in Simplified Chinese.

Evolution

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	行
+3	衍衎
+4	衏
+5	衐衑衒術衔^SC (=銜 -> 金)
+6	衕衖街衘 (=銜 -> 金)
+7	衙
+9	衚衛衜衝
+10	衞^HK (=衛) 衟 (=道 -> 辵) 衠衡
+18	衢

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.