Radical 144

For the three stroke "go" radical 夂, see Radical 34.

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.

行
Radical 144 (U 2F8F)
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

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

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/行

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. It is a second grade kanji.

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 884C