Radical 78

歹
Radical 78 (U+2F4D)
歹 (U+6B79) "death, decay"
Pinyin:	dǎi
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄞˇ
Wade–Giles:	tai3
Jyutping:	aat3 daai2
Cantonese Yale:	dáai
Hiragana:	ガツ gatsu
Kanji:	歹偏 gatsuhen
Hangul:	뼈앙상할 ppyeo angsanghal
Sino-Korean:	알 al
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Radical 78 meaning "death" or "decay" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

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

Characters with Radical 78

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Small Seal Script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	歹 歺
2 additional strokes	死
3 additional strokes	歼
4 additional strokes	歽 歾 歿 殀 殁
5 additional strokes	殂 殃 殄 殅 殆 殇
6 additional strokes	殈 殉 殊 残
7 additional strokes	殌 殍 殎 殏 殐 殑 殒 殓
8 additional strokes	殔 殕 殖 殗 殘 殙 殚
9 additional strokes	殛 殜
10 additional strokes	殝 殞 殟 殠 殡
11 additional strokes	殢 殣 殤 殥 殦
12 additional strokes	殧 殨 殩 殪 殫
13 additional strokes	殬 殭 殮
14 additional strokes	殯
15 additional strokes	殰 殱
17 additional strokes	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, 1987: 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