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Chinese radicals

A radical is the part of a character that files it in a dictionary, and in most characters it is also the half that carries the meaning. These are the 211 used by the 1,780 characters of HSK 3.0 Levels 2 to 6; the 77 with 6 or more characters have a page listing every one of them.

Practise writing them

1 stroke

one · 19丿slash · 9number one · 6

2 strokes

man · 84place · 29knife · 20strength · 14and · 13ten · 12cliff · 12son · 11ice · 11two · 8eight · 8lid · 6knife · 6

3 strokes

mouth · 78water · 75silk · 44to walk · 42soil · 33roof · 32grass · 30woman · 23big · 19cloth · 16广broad · 15to step with the left foot · 13dog · 13enclosure · 12gate · 11body · 9inch · 8horse · 8son · 7mountain · 7bow · 7

4 strokes

hand · 105tree · 67heart · 60moon · 41sun · 30sea shell · 27fire · 19to rap · 15king · 12cart · 12to lack · 10spear · 9fire · 9door · 7square · 7spirit · 7to speak · 6ox · 6to see · 6

5 strokes

eye · 16cereal · 16stone · 14field · 10dish · 10sickness · 8to stand · 8cloth · 8cave · 6

6 strokes

bamboo · 19page · 14rice · 10ear · 7cloth · 7

7 strokes

words · 49foot · 16to walk · 8wine · 8

8 strokes

gold · 22rain · 7

9 strokes

food · 10

Radicals with fewer than 6 characters

134 radicals appear in one, two or three characters each. They have no page of their own — a list that short belongs with the characters: 耀 西