Radical 36

"⼣" redirects here. For the Japanese katakana character タ, see Ta (kana).

Radical 36 or radical evening (夕部) meaning "evening" or "sunset" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

夕
Radical 36 (U+2F23)
夕 (U+5915) "evening, sunset"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	xī, xì
Bopomofo:	ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	shi, shih
Wade–Giles:	hsi1, hsi4
Cantonese Yale:	jihk
Jyutping:	zik6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	se̍k
Japanese Kana:	セキ seki (on'yomi) ゆう yū / ゆうべ yūbe (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	석 seok
Names
Japanese name(s):	夕/ゆうべ/ゆう yūbe/yū タ/た ta
Hangul:	저녁 jeonyeok
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

夕 is also the 43rd 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	夕
+2	外 夗 夘
+3	夙 多 夛 (=多) 名
+5	夜 夝 (=晴 -> 日)
+7	夞KO 够SC/variant (=夠) 夠
+8	梦SC/variant (=夢)
+9	夡
+11	夢 夣 夤 夥

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first 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+5915