Radical 74

月
73 ⽈ ◄	74	► ⽊ 75
Pinyin :	yuè (= moon, month)
Zhuyin :	ㄩ ㄝ
Hiragana :	つ き tsuki
Kanji :	月 tsuki (= moon)
Hangul :	달
Sinocorean :	월 il
Codepoint :	U + 6708 (2E9D)
Stroke sequence :

Radical 74 , meaning " moon , month ", is one of the 34 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of four strokes. As part of a date, the symbol stands for the month: 四月 九日 = 4 month 9 day = April 9th.

With 19 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is relatively rare. In the Kangxi dictionary there were 69 characters that could be found under this radical .

The symbol 月 is also used as an abbreviation for radical 130 for character combinations.

A seldom used variant is the character ⺝ encoded in another codepoint area.

Development of the character 月

Character combinations ruled by radical 74

Crescent moon

Strokes	character
+ 00	月
+ 02	有
+ 04	朊 朋 朌 服 肭
+ 05	朎 朏 朐 朑 胙
+ 06	朒 朓 朔 朕 朗 朗
+ 07	朖 朘 朙 朚 望
+ 08	朜 朝 朞 期
+ 09	朠 朡
+10	朢
+11	膤
+12	朣 朤 朥
+14	朦
+16	朧

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 74 is coded under the code point number 12.105 (U + 2F49).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 185 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 74  - Graphic representations of Radikal 74

Wiktionary: 月  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 74 on page 82