Radical 27

厂
厂
厂 (U+5382) "cliff"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	hǎn
Bopomofo:	ㄏㄢˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	haan
Wade–Giles:	han3
Cantonese Yale:	hon
Jyutping:	hon3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	hàn
Japanese Kana:	カン kan (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	한 han
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Simp.) 厂字头 chǎngzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	雁垂れ/がんだれ gandare
Hangul:	굴바위 gulbawi
Stroke order animation

Radical 27 or radical cliff (厂部) meaning "cliff" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 129 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

厂 is also the 7th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𠂆 being its associated indexing component. Though the Chinese character 厂 shares the same form as the simplified form of 廠 (chǎng, variant: 厰) which means "factory", the two are historically irrelevant in terms of meanings.

Evolution

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	厂
+2	厃厄厅^SC (=廳 -> 广) 历^SC (=歷/曆)
+3	厇厈厉^{SC/JP variant} (=厲)
+4	厊压^SC (=壓 -> 土) 厌^SC (=厭)
+5	厍^SC (=厙) 厎厏厐^SC (=龎=龐 -> 广) 厑
+6	厒厓厔厕^SC (=廁 -> 广)
+7	厖厗厘厙厚厛 (=廳 -> 广)
+8	厜厝厞原
+9	厠^JP/variant (=廁 -> 广) 厡 (=原) 厢^SC/variant (=廂 -> 广) 厣^SC (=厴) 厩^{SC/JP/variant} (=廄 -> 广)
+10	厤厥厦^SC/variant (=廈 -> 广) 厧厨^{SC/JP/variant} (=廚 -> 广)
+11	厪厫
+12	厬厭厮厯 (=歷) 厰 (=廠 -> 广)
+13	厱厲
+17	厴
+28	厵

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.