Radical 50

巾
巾
巾 (U+5DFE) "turban, scarf"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jīn
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧㄣ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	jin
Wade–Giles:	chin1
Cantonese Yale:	gān
Jyutping:	gan1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kun
Japanese Kana:	キン kin; きれ kire (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	건 geon
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left/right) 巾字旁 jīnzìpáng; (Bottom) 巾字底 jīnzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	巾/はば haba; 幅偏/はばへん habahen; 巾偏/きんへん/きんべん kinhen/kinben
Hangul:	수건 sugeon
Stroke order animation

Radical 50 or radical turban (巾部) meaning "turban" or "scarf" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 295 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

巾 is also the 40th 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	巾
+1	巿帀币^SC (=幣)
+2	市布帄帅^SC (=帥)
+3	帆帇师^SC (=師)
+4	帉帊帋 (=紙 -> 糸) 希帍帎帏 (幃) 帐^SC (=帳)
+5	帑帒帓帔帕帖帗帘帙帚帛帜^SC (=幟)
+6	帝帞帟帠帡帢帣帤帥带^SC (=帶) 帧^SC (=幀)
+7	帨帩帪師帬 (=裙 -> 衣) 席帮^SC (=幫) 帯^JP (=帶) 帰^JP (=歸 -> 止) 帱^SC (=幬)
+8	帲^Kangxi (=帡) 帳帴帵帶帷常帹帺帻^SC (=幘) 帼^SC (=幗)
+9	帽帾帿幀幁幂幃幄幅幆幇^JP (=幫) 幉
+10	幊幋幌幍幎幏幐
+11	幈幑幒幓幔幕幖幗幘幙幚 (=幫) 幛
+12	幜幝幞幟幠幡幢幣幤幥
+13	幦幧幨幩
+14	幪幫幬
+15	幭幮幯
+16	幰
+17	幱

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+5DFE