| 又 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 又 (U+53C8) "right hand" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | yòu | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄡˋ | |||
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | yow | |||
| Wade–Giles: | yu4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | yauh | |||
| Jyutping: | jau6 | |||
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | iū | |||
| JapaneseKana: | ユウ yū (on'yomi) また mata (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 우 u | |||
| Names | ||||
| Chinese name(s): | 又字旁 yòuzìpáng | |||
| Japanese name(s): | 又/また mata | |||
| Hangul: | 또 tto | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||
Radical 29 orradical again (又部) meaning"and","again" or"right hand" is one of the 23Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of twostrokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 91 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
又 is also the 24th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
The radical character又's ancient form is a pictogram of aright hand from which the modern Chinese character右 (right) was derived. Though 又 (again) as a modern Chinese character no longer represents the meaning of "right", the implication of "hand" is preserved in some Chinese characters fall under radical 29.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 又 |
| +1 | 叉 |
| +2 | 及友双SC/JP (=雙->隹)反収JP (=收->攴) |
| +3 | 叏叐 |
| +4 | 发SC (=發->癶 /髮->髟)叒 |
| +5 | 叓 |
| +6 | 叔叕取受变SC (=變->言) |
| +7 | 叙SC/JP/variant (=敘/敍->攴)叚叛叜叝 |
| +8 | 叞叟 |
| +11 | 叠SC (=疊->田) |
| +14 | 叡 |
| +16 | 叢 |
As an independent sinogram it is aJōyō kanji, or akanji used in writing theJapanese language.[1] It is a secondary school kanji.[2]