Radical 24

Radical 24 meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "十" is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 24

strokes	characters
0	十
1 stroke	卂, 千, 卄
2 strokes	卅, 卆, 升, 午
3 strokes	卉, 半
4 strokes	卋, 卌, 卍, 华, 协, 卐, 毕
5 strokes
6 strokes	丧, 卑, 卒, 卓, 協, 单, 卖
7 strokes	南
8 strokes
9 strokes	卙
10 strokes	博
19 strokes	卛, 颦

Literature

• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

External links

• Unihan data for U+5341

See also

• KangXi: page 155, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
• Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9