Radical 163

邑 ⻏
162 ⾡ ◄	163	► ⾣ 164
Pinyin :	yì 右 耳朵 you erduo (= right ear)
Zhuyin :	ㄧ ˋ
Hiragana :	む ら mura
Kanji :	邑 mura (= village) or 大里 ôzato
Hangul :	고을
Sinocorean :	읍
Codepoint :	U + 9091 961D
Stroke sequence :

Radical 163 , meaning " village ", is one of 20 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with seven strokes.

The spelling variant of the radical 阝 can easily be confused with radical 170 , but it is always on the right.

The original meaning of 邑 was "control a place", "city walls". This is why most of the signs assigned to this radical are in this context, such as:

character	Explanation
邦	State, country
郊	On site
郡	District (old administrative unit). The modern prefectures of Japan write mit: 秋田 県 Akita-ken, 青森 県 Aomori-ken, etc.
都	Capital, metropolis. The cities 成都Chéngdū and 京都Kyōto are written with this character .

Character connections are formed almost exclusively with the 阝 always on the right .

Character combinations ruled by radical 163

Strokes	character
+ 00	邑 阝
+ 02	邓
+ 03	邔 邕 邖 邗 邘 邙 邚 邛 邜 邝
+ 04	邞 邟 邠 邡 邢 那 邤 邥 邦 邧 邨 邩 邪 邫 邬
+ 05	邭 邮 邯 邰 邱 邲 邳 邴 邵 邶 邷 邸 邹 邺 邻
+ 06	邼 邽 邾 邿 郀 郁 郂 郃 郄 郅 郆 郇 郈 郉 郊 郋 郌 郍 郎 郏 郐 郑 郓
+ 07	郒 郔 郕 郖 郗 郘 郙 郚 郛 郜 郝 郞 郟 郠 郡 郢 郣 郤 郥 郦 郧
+ 08	部 郩 郪 郫 郬 郭 郮 郯 郰 郱 郲 郳 郴 郵 郶 郷 郸 郹 郺 郻 郼 都
+ 09	郾 郿 鄀 鄁 鄂 鄃 鄄 鄅 鄆 鄇 鄈 鄉 鄊
+10	鄋 鄌 鄍 鄎 鄏 鄐 鄑 鄒 鄓 鄔 鄕 鄖 鄗
+11	鄘 鄙 鄚 鄛 鄜 鄝 鄞 鄟 鄠 鄡 鄢 鄣 鄤 鄥
+12	鄦 鄧 鄨 鄩 鄪 鄫 鄬 鄭 鄮 鄯 鄰 鄱 鄲
+13	鄳 鄴 鄵 鄶 鄷
+14	鄸 鄹
+15	鄺 鄻 鄼 鄽 鄾
+16	鄿 酀 酂
+17	酁 酃
+18	酄 酅 酆
+19	酇 酈

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 163 is coded under the code point number 12.194 (U + 2FA2).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 113 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 163  - Graphic representations of Radikal 163

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 163 on pages 17 and 133