Radical 19

"力" redirects here. For the Japanese kana, see カ.

力
Radical 19 (U+2F12)
力 (U+529B) "power"
Pinyin:	lì
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:	li4
Jyutping:	lik6
Cantonese Yale:	lik6
Hiragana:	リョク ryoku ちから chikara
Kanji:	力 chikara
Hangul:	력 (역) ryeok
Sino-Korean:	힘 him
Stroke order animation

Radical 19 meaning "power" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 163 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 19

• 
  Bronze script character
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  Great seal script character
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  Small seal script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	力
1 additional stroke	劜
2 additional strokes	劝 办
3 additional strokes	功 加 务 劢
4 additional strokes	劣 劤 劥 劦 劧 动 攰
5 additional strokes	助 努 劫 劬 劭 劮 劯 劰 励 劲 劳 労
6 additional strokes	劵 劶 劷 劸 効 劺 劻 劼 劽 劾 势
7 additional strokes	勀 勁 勂 勃 勄 勅 勆 勇 勈 勉 勊 勋 巭
8 additional strokes	勌 勍 勎 勏 勐 勑
9 additional strokes	勒 勓 勔 動 勖 勗 勘 務 勚
10 additional strokes	勛 勜 勝 勞
11 additional strokes	募 勠 勡 勢 勣 勤 勥 勦 勧
12 additional strokes	勨 勩 勪 勫 勬 勭
13 additional strokes	勮 勯 勰 勱 勲
14 additional strokes	勳
15 additional strokes	勴 勵 勶
17 additional strokes	勷
18 additional strokes	勸

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.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

External links

• Unihan Database - U+529B