Radical 78

歹
Radical 78 (U+2F4D)
歹 (U+6B79) "death, decay"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	dǎi
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄞˇ
Wade–Giles:	tai3
Cantonese Yale:	dáai
Jyutping:	aat3 daai2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	tái
Japanese Kana:	ガツ gatsu (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	알 al
Names
Chinese name(s):	歹字旁 dǎizìpáng
Japanese name(s):	かばねへん kabanehen 歹/がつ gatsu 歹偏/がつへん gatsuhen 死構/しにがまえ shinigamae 一タ偏/いちたへん ichitahen 一夕偏/いっせきへん ichisekihen
Hangul:	뼈앙상할 ppyeo angsanghal
Stroke order animation

Radical 78 or radical death (歹部) meaning "death", "decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

歹 is also the 67th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 歺 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	歹 歺
+2	死
+3	歼SC (=殲)
+4	歽 歾 歿 殀 殁SC (=歿)
+5	殂 殃 殄 殅 殆 殇SC (=殤)
+6	殈 殉 殊 残SC/残JP (=殘)
+7	殌 殍 殎 殏 殐 殑 殒SC (=殞) 殓SC (=殮)
+8	殔 殕 殖SC/TC/殖Kangxi/JP/KO 殗 殘 殙 殚SC (=殫)
+9	殛 殜
+10	殝 殞 殟 殠 殡SC (=殯)
+11	殢 殣 殤 殥 殦
+12	殧 殨 殩 殪 殫
+13	殬 殭 殮
+14	殯
+15	殰 殱 (=殲)
+17	殲

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+6B79