Radical 171

"Catch" radical 171 with the meaning is one of 9 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by eight strokes.

With four combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon. And even in the 40,000 -character Kangxi Dictionary there are only 12 characters which can be found at this radical.

The interpretation of this character is controversial. It walks on two pictures back: on the one hand that holds something, then that of a hairy animal tail. One hypothesis is that animals were sacrificed during the Zhou Dynasty. Priests saw this the sacrificial animal 's tail. Therefore, the meaning of " beg ". First, it was probably "hold" was told simply. Sometimes they killed also the hair of a slave. Therefore, it is the meaning of " subordinate ".

" Arresting " to write today with radical 171 and " go fast."

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 171

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 171 of the Code Point number 12,202 (U 2 FAA) is coded.

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