Radical 79

殳
78 ⽍ ◄	79	► ⽏ 80
Pinyin :	shū (= halberd, lance)
Zhuyin :	ㄕ ㄨ
Hiragana :	ほ こ づ く り hokozukuri
Kanji :	ル 又, 殳 旁rumata, hokozukuri
Hangul :	칠 수 몽둥이
Sinocorean :	수
Codepoint :	U + 6BB3
Stroke sequence :

Radical 79 , meaning “ halberd , lance ”, is one of the 34 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of four strokes.

With 16 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare in the dictionary.

This old bamboo weapon became a work tool with a curved handle that was used to carry loads. As a single character, 殳 was only used very rarely, and it soon mutated into a radical . It is hardly known with its pronunciation shū. To describe it, the designation of its two more well-known components 又 (you) and 几 (ji) is used: 几 又 边 (jiyou bian = jiyou side part).

殳 always stands on the right in the compound symbol: 殴 (= hit), 殷 (= dark red) and, as a bearer of meaning, creates the meaning field of hand movement with a device as in 投 (= throw, hurl), 役 (= work, service, with the components彳 chì for movement and 殳 shū, the hand with the weapon). The real meaning of 役 is therefore: battle, campaign.

Character combinations ruled by radical 79

Tip of a Japanese yari

Strokes	character
+ 00	殳
+ 05	殴 段 殶
+ 06	殷 殸 殹 殺
+ 07	殻
+ 08	殼 殽
+ 09	殾 殿 毀 毁 毂
+10	毃 毄
+11	毅 毆
+12	毇 毈
+15	毉
+19	毊

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 79 is coded under the code point number 12.110 (U + 2F4E).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 133 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 79  - Graphic representations of Radikal 79

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 79 on page 85