Radical 64

Radical 64 with the meaning "hand" is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes.

With 411 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

Radical 64 is only in dictionaries that use the long list of traditional character radicals, at the 64th place of the radical list. In dictionaries that use short character, it can be found at quite a different place. In the New Sino- German dictionary it can be found for example as a radical number 55扌and 111手again.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of a hand with five fingers. By the use of the writing brush fingers were modified in horizontal lines.

The spelling variations才(similar to Katakanaオ"o" ) or扌are always on the left.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 64

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 64 of the Code Point number 12,095 (U 2 F3F ).

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