| 血 | ||||
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| 血 (U+8840) "blood" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | xuè | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄩㄝˋ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | hsüeh4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | hyut3 | |||
| Jyutping: | hyut3 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | ケツ ketsu / ケチ kechi (on'yomi) ち chi (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 혈 hyeol | |||
| Names | ||||
| Japanese name(s): | 血/ち chi (Left) 血偏/ちへん chihen | |||
| Hangul: | 피 pi | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||
Radical 143 orradical blood (血部) meaning"blood" is one of the 29Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
血 is also the 138th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 血 |
| +3 | 衁衂 (=衄) |
| +4 | 衃衄 |
| +5 | 衅SC (=釁->酉) |
| +6 | 衆JP/KO/GB TC (=眾->目)衇 (=脈->肉)衈衉 |
| +15 | 衊 |
| +18 | 衋 |
As an independent sinogram it is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a third grade kanji.[1]