Radical 111

For the three stroke arrow radical (弋), see Radical 56.

Radical 111 or radical arrow (矢部) meaning "arrow" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

矢
Radical 111 (U+2F6E)
矢 (U+77E2) "arrow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄕˇ
Wade–Giles:	shih3
Cantonese Yale:	chi2
Jyutping:	ci2
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi) や ya (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	시 si
Names
Chinese name(s):	矢字旁 shǐzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	矢/や ya 矢偏/やへん yahen
Hangul:	화살 hwasal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

矢 is also the 110th 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
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	矢
+2	矣
+3	矤 知
+4	矦 矧 矨
+5	矩
+6	矪 矫
+7	矬 短
+8	矮
+12	矯 矰
+14	矱
+15	矲

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 矢 is a Chinese character that means arrow. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade

Further reading

• 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+77E2