| 阜 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 阜 (U+961C) "mound, dam" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | fù | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄨˋ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | fu4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | fau6 | |||
| Jyutping: | fau6 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | フ fu / フウ fū (on'yomi) おか oka (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu | |||
| Hán-Việt: | phụ | |||
| Names | ||||
| Chinese name(s): | (⻖)左耳旁 zuǒ'ěrpáng | |||
| Japanese name(s): | こざとへん kozatohen 岐阜の阜Gifu no fu | |||
| Hangul: | 언덕 eondeok | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||

Radical 170 orradical mound (阜部) meaning"mound" or"dam" is one of the 9Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8strokes. This radical character transforms into阝 (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with阝 on the right derived from邑).
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
阜 is also the 175th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, with阝 (left) listed as its associated indexing component.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 阜阝 |
| +2 | 阞队SC (=隊) |
| +3 | 阠阡阢阣阤 |
| +4 | 阥 (=陰)阦 (=陽)阧阨 (=厄->厂)阩阪阫阬阭阮阯 (=址->土)阰阱防阳SC (=陽)阴SC (=陰)阵SC (=陣)阶SC (=階) |
| +5 | 阷阸阹阺阻阼阽阾 (=嶺->山鄰->邑)阿陀陁陂陃附际SC (=際)陆SC (=陸)陇SC (=隴)陈SC (=陳)陉SC (=陘) |
| +6 | 陊陋陌降陎陏限陑陒陓陔陕SC (=陝) |
| +7 | 陖陗 (=峭->山)陘陙陛陜 (=狹->犬 /峽->山)陝陞 (=升->十)陟陠陡院陣除陥JP (=陷)陦SC (=隯)陧SC (=隉)陨SC (=隕)险SC (=險) |
| +8 | 陚陪陫陬陭陮陯陰陱陲陳陴陵陶陷陸陹険JP (=險) |
| +9 | 陻 (=堙->土)陼陽陾陿 (=狹->犬)隀隁隂 (=陰)隃隄 (=堤->土)隅隆隇隈隉隊隋隌隍階随SC/JP (=隨)隐SC (=隱) |
| +10 | 隑隒隓隔隕隖 (=塢->土)隗隘隙 |
| +11 | 隚際障隝 (=島->山)隞隟 (=隙)隠JP (=隱)隡 |
| +12 | 隢隣 (=鄰->邑)隤隥 |
| +13 | 隦隧隨隩險隫 |
| +14 | 隬隭隮隯隰隱隲 (=騭->馬) |
| +15 | 隳 |
| +16 | 隴 |
| +17 | 隵 |
This kanji is one of the 20 kanji added to theKyoiku kanji or kanji taught inJapanese elementary schools that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[1] It was added because it is the second character inGifu (岐阜県).[1]