Radical 6

The radical 6 with the meaning "hook" is one of six traditional radicals of Chinese writing, which consist of only a single stroke.

With 5 characters compounds in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, it happens very rarely. Also in the Kangxi dictionary is only 19 characters which can be found at this radical.

Originally, the Chinese used wood brush with tips from fibers. Thus, they could only write shaped characters. Through the brush with the hair tip, the characters change their appearance. This vertical line was now soft and took the wrong meaning "hook" to.

Character connections that are ruled by radical 6

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 6 is coded under the code point number 12,037 (U 2 F05 ).

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