Radical 197 or radical salt (鹵部) meaning "salt" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

← 196 Radical 197 (U+2FC4) 198 →
(U+9E75) "salt"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄌㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:lu3
Cantonese Yale:lou5
Jyutping:lou5
Japanese Kana:ロ ro (on'yomi)
しお shio (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:로 ro
Hán-Việt:lỗ
Names
Japanese name(s):ろ ro
しお shio
Hangul:소금밭 sogeumbat
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

(7 strokes), the simplified form of is the 156th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 SC (=鹵)
+4
+5
+8 JP (=鹼)
+9 SC (=鹺)
+10 (=鹼)
+13

Literature

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  • 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.
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