Radical 69

斤
Radical 69 (U+2F44)
斤 (U+65A4) "axe"
Pinyin:	jīn
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄣ
Wade–Giles:	chin1
Jyutping:	gan1
Cantonese Yale:	gān
Hiragana:	キン, おの kin, ono
Kanji:	斧 ono
Hangul:	도끼 dokki
Sino-Korean:	근 geun
Stroke order animation

Radical 69 meaning "axe" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes. It is also the symbol of the catty, a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 69

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large Seal Script character
• 
  Small Seal Script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	斤
1 additional stroke	斥
4 additional strokes	斦 斧 斨 斩
5 additional strokes	斪 斫
7 additional strokes	斬 断
8 additional strokes	斮 斯
9 additional strokes	新 斱
10 additional strokes	斲
11 additional strokes	斳
12 additional strokes	斴
13 additional strokes	斵 斶
14 additional strokes	斷
21 additional strokes	斸

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+65A4