Radical 94

← 93 Radical 94 (U+2F5D) 95 →
(U+72AC) "dog"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:quǎn
Bopomofo:ㄑㄩㄢˇ
Wade–Giles:ch'üan3
Cantonese Yale:hyún
Jyutping:hyun2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:khián
Japanese Kana:ケン ken (on'yomi)
いぬ inu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:견 gyeon
Names
Chinese name(s):(犭) 反犬旁 fǎnquǎnpáng
Japanese name(s):犬/いぬ inu
(犭) 獣偏/けものへん kemonohen
Hangul:개 gae
(犭) 개사슴록변 gaesaseumnokbyeon
Stroke order animation

Radical 94, meaning "dog" (犬部) is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 66th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

In Japanese, 犬 is a Kanji symbol, and its Hiragana version is "いぬ" (inu).

, just like most Kanji, is used in both Japanese and Chinese languages.

The symbol is pronounced "quăn" in Chinese.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 Component only
+1
+2
+3 SC/JP (=狀) SC (=獷) SC (=獁)
+4 SC (=猶) SC (=狽)
+5 SC (=獮) SC (=獰)
+6 SC/JP (=獨) SC/JP (=狹) SC (=獅) SC (=獪) SC (=猙) SC (=獄) SC (=猻)
+7 SC (=獫)
+8 SC (=獵) SC (=獼) JP (=獵) SC (=玀) SC/JP (=) SC/JP variant (= -> ) GB TC variant
+9 Traditional variant SC/JP (=獻)
+10 SC variant SC variant SC variant
+11 TC variant TC variant TC variant SC variant
+12 (=獋) TC variant JP (=獸) SC variant
+13 TC variant SC (=獺) JP/GB TC variant
+14 Traditional variant SC variant GB TC variant
+15 TC variant Traditional variant
+16
+17 SC variant
+18 TC variant
+19
+20

Sinogram

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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 first grade kanji[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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

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