Radical 177

革
176 ⾯ ◄	177	► ⾱ 178
Pinyin :	gé (= leather)
Zhuyin :	ㄍ ㄜ ˊ
Hiragana :	か く の か わ kaku no kawa
Kanji :	革 偏 kawahen (= radical leather)
Hangul :	가죽
Sinocorean :	혁 (= leather)
Codepoint :	U + 9769
Stroke sequence :

Radical 177 , meaning “ leather ”, is one of eleven of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with nine strokes.

With 43 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are a relatively large number of characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

Radikal leather only occupies 177th position in the long - character list of traditional radicals , which consists of 214 radicals. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 212th position.

There are two radicals for leather. This one is widespread and has many derivatives, while the other ( radical 107 ) has only four. Today the distinction is difficult to explain. But the pictogram shows a sheepskin that is hung up (the two horizontal lines) and is being scraped off by two hands.

As a bearer of meaning for leather, 革 puts its symbols in this meaning, such as: 靴 (= boot), 鞍 (= saddle), 鞘 (qiao = sword scabbard).

The hexagram 49 of the I Ching also stands for 革 .

Character combinations ruled by Radical 177

Strokes	character
+ 00	革
+ 02	靪
+ 03	靫 靬 靭 靮 靯 靰 靱
+ 04	靲 靳 靴 靵 靶 靷 靸 靹
+ 05	靺 靻 靼 靽 靾 靿 鞀 鞁 鞂 鞃 鞄 鞅 鞆
+ 06	鞇 鞈 鞉 鞊 鞋 鞌 鞍 鞎 鞏 鞐 鞑 鞒
+ 07	鞓 鞔 鞕 鞖 鞗 鞘 鞙
+ 08	鞚 鞛 鞜 鞝 鞞 鞟 鞠 鞡
+ 09	鞢 鞣 鞤 鞥 鞦 鞧 鞨 鞩 鞪 鞫 鞬 鞭 鞮 鞯 鞰 鞱 鞲 鞳 鞴
+10	鞵 鞶 鞷
+11	鞸 鞹 鞺 鞻
+12	鞼 鞽 鞾 鞿
+13	韀 韁 韂 韃
+14	韄 韅
+15	韆 韇 韈
+17	韉
+21	韊

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 177 is coded under the code point number 12.208 (U + 2FB0).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 178 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 177  - Graphic representations of Radikal 177

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 177 on page 145