Radical 66

攴
攴
攴 (U+6534) "tap"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	pū
Bopomofo:	ㄆㄨ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	pu
Wade–Giles:	pʻu1
Cantonese Yale:	pok
Jyutping:	pok3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	phok
Japanese Kana:	ホク hoku (on'yomi); うつ utsu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	복 bok
Names
Chinese name(s):	(攵) 反文旁 fǎnwénpáng; (攴) 缺支 quēzhī
Japanese name(s):	攴旁/ぼくづくり bokuzukuri; 攴繞/ぼくにょう bokunyō; ぼんにょう bonnyō; ノ文/のぶん nobun; 支文/しぶん shibun; ト又/とまた tomata
Hangul:	칠 chil
Stroke order animation

Radical 66 or radical tap (攴部) meaning "tap" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. It is also used to represent a folding chair.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 296 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

攴 is also the 74th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 攵 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	攴攵
+2	收攷 (=考 -> 老)
+3	攸改攺 (=改) 攻攼
+4	攽放敌^SC (=敵)
+5	政敀敁敂敃敄故
+6	敆敇效敉敊敋敏^JP 敖^{SC variant}
+7	敍^HK (=敘) 敎^Kangxi/KO (=教) 敏^SC/TC/KO 敐救敒敓敔敕敖^{TC variant} 敗敘教敚^SC (=敓) 敛^SC (=斂) 敢^{SC variant}
+8	敜敝敞敟敠敡敢^{TC variant} 散敤敥敦敧敨敩^SC (=斆) 敪敬^{SC/JP variant}
+9	敫敬^{TC variant} 敭敮敯数^SC/JP (=數)
+10	敱敲敳
+11	敵敶敷數敹敺敻
+12	整敼敽敾敿
+13	厳^JP (=嚴 -> 口) 斀斁斂
+14	斃
+15	斄
+16	斅斆 (=斅)

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+6534