| 革 | ||
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| 革 (U+9769) "leather, rawhide" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gé | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄜˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ko2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gaak3, gaap3 | |
| Jyutping: | gaak3, gaap3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | カク kaku (on'yomi) かわ kawa / あらた-める arata-meru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 혁 hyeok | |
| Hán-Việt: | cách | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 革偏/かわへん kawahen | |
| Hangul: | 가죽 gajuk | |
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Radical 177 or radical leather (革部) meaning "leather" or "rawhide" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 305 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
革 is also the 179th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.