爿
← 89 Radical 90 (U+2F59) 91 →
爿 (U+723F) "half of tree trunk"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	qiáng
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄧㄤˊ
Wade–Giles:	ch'iang2
Cantonese Yale:	chèuhng
Jyutping:	coeng4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chiông
JapaneseKana:	ショウ shō (on'yomi) だい dai (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	장 jang
Names
Japanese name(s):	爿偏/しょうへん shōhen
Hangul:	조각널 jogak neol
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Radical 90 orradical half tree trunk (爿部) meaning"half of atree trunk" or"splitwood" is 1 of 34Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 48 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

In theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China,爿 is listed as the associated indexing component under the 45th principal indexing component丬. However, the character爿 itself and爿 as in some other characters (e.g.戕,寐, etc.) are not simplified. Similar inconsistency can also be found in Japaneseshinjitai.

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  Oracle bone script character

• 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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