Radical 151

Radical 151 or radical bean (豆部) meaning "bean" is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals. It is one of 20 which are composed of 7 strokes.

豆
Radical 151 (U+2F96)
豆 (U+8C46) "bean"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	dòu
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄡˋ
Wade–Giles:	tou4
Cantonese Yale:	dau2, dau6
Jyutping:	dau2, dau6
Japanese Kana:	トウ tō / ズ zu (on'yomi) まめ mame (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	두 du
Names
Chinese name(s):	豆字旁 dòuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	豆/まめ mame (Left) 豆偏/まめへん mamehen
Hangul:	콩 kong
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 68 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

豆 is also the 152nd 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	豆
+3	豇 豈
+4	豉
+6	豊JP (=豐) 豋
+8	豌 豍 豎
+10	豏
+11	豐
+13	豑 (=秩 -> 禾)
+18	豒 (=秩 -> 禾)
+20	豓 (=豔)
+21	豔

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/豆

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 豆 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. Specifically it is a third grade kanji.

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+8C46