| 爪 | ||
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| 爪 (U+722A) "claw" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zhǎo/zhuǎ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓㄠˇ/ㄓㄨㄚˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chao3/chua3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jáau | |
| Jyutping: | zaau2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | jiáu | |
| Japanese Kana: | ソウ sō (on'yomi) つめ tsume (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 조 cho | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (爫) 爪字頭/爪字头 zhǎozìtóu/zhuǎzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 爪/つめ tsume 爪繞/そうにょう sōnyō (爫) 爪冠/つめかんむり tsumekanmuri (爫) 爪頭/つめがしら tsumegashira (爫) ノツ冠/のつかんむり notsukanmuri | |
| Hangul: | 손톱 sontop | |
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Radical 87 or radical claw (爪部) meaning "claw", "nail" or "talon" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 36 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
爪 is also the 86th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 爫 being its associated indexing component.