舌
← 134 Radical 135 (U+2F86) 136 →
舌 (U+820C) "tongue"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shé
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄜˊ
Wade–Giles:	she2
Cantonese Yale:	sit6
Jyutping:	sit6, sit3
JapaneseKana:	セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi) した shita (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	설 seol
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng
Japanese name(s):	舌/した shita
Hangul:	혀 hyeo
Stroke order animation

Radical 135 orradical tongue (舌部) meaning"tongue" is one of the 29Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

舌 is also the 134th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.

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In theKangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.

The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of theKyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school inJapan. It is a fifth grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987).Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York:Abbeville Press.ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009)."Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets"(PDF).CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.).Sebastopol, Calif.:O'Reilly Media.ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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