Radical 74

月
月
月 (U+6708) "moon, month"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yuè
Bopomofo:	ㄩㄝˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yueh
Wade–Giles:	yüeh4
Cantonese Yale:	yuht
Jyutping:	jyut6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	goa̍t
Japanese Kana:	ゲツ getsu / ガツ gatsu (on'yomi); つき tsuki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	월 wol
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left/right) 月字旁 yuèzìpáng; (Bottom) 月字底 yuèzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	月/つき tsuki; 月偏/つきへん tsukihen
Hangul:	달 dal
Stroke order animation

Radical 74 or radical moon (月部) meaning "moon" or "month" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary. there are 69 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

月 is also the 88th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Character with the alternative form of Kangxi Radical 130 (⺼ "meat") is merged to this radical in Simplified Chinese, and no associated indexing component is left after the merger.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	月
+2	有
+4	朊朋朌服肭
+5	朎朏朐朑胙
+6	朒朓朔朕朗朗
+7	朖朘朙 (=明 -> 日) 朚望
+8	朜朝朞 (=期) 期朠^{SC/JP variant}
+9	朠^{TC variant} 朡
+10	朢 (=望)
+11	膤
+12	朣朤朥
+13	朦^{SC/JP variant}
+14	朦^{TC variant}
+16	朧

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.^[1] It is a first grade kanji^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.