Radical 87

爪 爫
86 ⽕ ◄	87	► ⽗ 88
Pinyin :	zhǎo (= claw, claw)
Zhuyin :	ㄓ ㄠ ˇ
Hiragana :	つ め (or Katakana : ノ ツ) notsu
Kanji :	爪 tsume or 爫 爪 冠 tsumekanmuri
Hangul :	손톱
Sinocorean :	조
Codepoint :	U + 722A 722B
Stroke sequence :

Radical 87 with the meaning “ claw , claw” is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with four strokes.

With 7 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

This radical can easily be confused with radical 97瓜 (= melon).

The radical "claw" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 87th position. 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 116th position.

The original shape shows the image of the claw foot of a wild animal. The hunters had to be able to distinguish the prints of such feet from each other, which is why the component 采 (bian) has the meaning differentiate. 悉 (= to be familiar in 熟悉 = to know well) contains 采 and the heart 心. 番 (fen = counting unit word for species) originally meant the foot of a wild animal, the field below (田) is none, but is intended to represent the footprint of this foot.

The 采 sub-characters are not very numerous, and many of them are rarely used. The designation of the radical, which is not a single sign, is therefore problematic. Its pronunciation is hardly known. 采 (bian) is very similar to the character 采 (take cai). So very similar that both are summarized under 采 (bian) in older reference works and also in the new Ciyuan .

Character combinations ruled by radical 87

Claw of a rhinoceros iguana

Strokes	character
+ 00	爪 爫
+ 04	爬 爭
+ 05	爮 爯 爰
+ 06	爱
+ 08	爲
+10	爳
+11	爴
+14	爵

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 87 is coded under the code point number 12.118 (U + 2F56).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 175 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 87  - Graphic representations of Radikal 87

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 87 on page 80