⽁

Alternative forms

• 攵 (sometimes used as a right Chinese radical)

Han character

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Radical 66 攴

攴 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜水 (YE), four-corner 2140₇, composition ⿱⺊又)

1. Kangxi radical #66, ⽁.

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 攴, Shang ...

Historical forms of the character 攴
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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Originally a pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : a hand (又) holding a tool of some sort (possibly a weapon or whip), meaning “to hit”. Also phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ) : phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ) + semantic 又 (“hand”). Today, the character is mostly stylized except in some archaic variants.

Similar but unrelated to 支, 伊, and 父. The stylized version is unrelated to 囱 (> 窗) and 文.

Pronunciation

Definitions

攴

1. to hit lightly; to tap

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C04551
• “攴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to strike; to hit
2. folding chair

Hanja

攴 (eumhun 칠 복 (chil bok))

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Han character

攴: Hán Nôm readings: phộc

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