Radical 38

← 37 Radical 38 (U+2F25) 39 →
(U+5973) "woman, female"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄋㄩˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:neu
Wade–Giles:3
Cantonese Yale:néuih
Jyutping:neoi5
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ジョ jo (on'yomi)
おんな onna (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:녀 (여) nyeo
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 女字旁 nǚzìpáng
(Bottom) 女字底 nǚzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):女偏/おんなへん onnahen
Hangul:계집 gyejip
Stroke order animation

Radical 38 or radical woman (女部) meaning "woman" or "female" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 681 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 56th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.