Radical 76

Radical 76 or radical lack (欠部) meaning "owe", "lack", or "yawn" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

欠
Radical 76 (U+2F4B)
欠 (U+6B20) "owe, lack, yawn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	qiàn
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄧㄢˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	chiann
Wade–Giles:	chʻien4
Cantonese Yale:	him
Jyutping:	him3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	khiàm
Japanese Kana:	ケン ken (on'yomi) あくび akubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	흠 heum
Names
Chinese name(s):	欠字旁 qiànzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	欠伸/あくび akubi 欠ける/かける kakeru 欠旁/けんづくり kendzukuri 吹き旁/ふきづくり fukidzukuri
Hangul:	하품 hapum
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

欠 is also the 90th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	欠
+2	次SC/JP/次TC 欢SC (=歡)
+4	欣 欤SC (=歟) 欥 欦 欧SC/JP (=歐)
+5	欨 欪
+6	欫 欬 欭 欮 欯 欰 欱
+7	欲 欳 欴 欵 欶 欷 欸
+8	欹 欺 欻 欼 欽 款 欿 歄GB TC variant
+9	欩 歀 歁 歂 歃 歄Traditional variant 歅 歆 歇 歈
+10	歊 歋 歌 歍
+11	歉 歎 歏 歐 歑 歒 歓JP (=歡) 歔SC variant
+12	歔TC variant 歕 歖 歗 歘 歙 歚
+13	歛 歜 歝
+14	歞 歟
+15	歠 歡GB TC variant
+17	歡Traditional variant

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fourth grade kanji.

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.
• 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+6B20