Radical 190

髟
髟
髟 (U+9ADF) "hair"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	biāo
Bopomofo:	ㄅㄧㄠ
Wade–Giles:	piao1
Cantonese Yale:	biu1
Jyutping:	biu1
Japanese Kana:	ヒョウ hyō (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	표 pyo
Hán-Việt:	tiêu
Names
Japanese name(s):	髪頭/かみがしら kamigashira; 髪冠/かみかんむり kamikanmuri
Hangul:	머리 늘어질; meori neureojil
Stroke order animation

Radical 190 or radical hair (髟部) meaning "hair" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 243 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

髟 is also the 188th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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.