Radical 36

← 35 Radical 36 (U+2F23) 37 →
(U+5915) "evening, sunset"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xī, xì
Bopomofo:ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:shi, shih
Wade–Giles:hsi1, hsi4
Cantonese Yale:jihk
Jyutping:zik6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:se̍k
Japanese Kana:セキ seki (on'yomi)
ゆう yū / ゆうべ yūbe (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:석 seok
Names
Japanese name(s):夕/ゆうべ/ゆう yūbe/yū
/た ta
Hangul:저녁 jeonyeok
Stroke order animation

Radical 36 or radical evening (夕部) meaning "evening" or "sunset" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 43rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.