Radical 59

彡
← 58 Radical 59 (U+2F3A) 60 →
彡 (U+5F61) "bristle, beard"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shān
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	shan
Wade–Giles:	shan1
Cantonese Yale:	sāam
Jyutping:	saam1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	sam
Japanese Kana:	サン san (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	삼 sam
Names
Chinese name(s):	三撇 sānpiě
Japanese name(s):	彡旁/さんづくり sanzukuri 髪飾り/かみかざり kamikazari
Hangul:	터럭 teoreok
Stroke order animation

Radical 59 or radical bristle (彡部) meaning "bristle" or "beard" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes. It is extremely similar to the katakana Mi, the only difference is being flipped 180 degrees.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 62 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

彡 is also the 42nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	彡
+4	形 彣 彤
+6	彥 彦SC/JP (=彥) 须SC (=須 -> 頁 / 鬚 -> 髟)
+7	彧 彨 (=彲)
+8	彩 彪 彫JP/variant (=雕 -> 隹) 彬
+9	彭
+10	彮
+11	彯 彰
+12	影
+19	彲

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.

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