Radical 172

← 171 Radical 172 (U+2FAB) 173 →
(U+96B9) "small bird"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhuī
Bopomofo:ㄓㄨㄟ
Wade–Giles:chui1
Cantonese Yale:jeui1
Jyutping:zeoi1
Japanese Kana:スイ, とり sui, tori (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:추 chu
Hán-Việt:chuy
Names
Japanese name(s):舊隹/ふるとり furutori[1]
Hangul:새 sae
Stroke order animation

Radical 172 or radical short tailed bird (隹部) meaning "bird" or "short-tailed bird" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 174th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

  1. ^ "Kanji Box - Radicals list with names". Retrieved 2011-04-07.