Radical 89

爻
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爻 (U+723B) "Trigrams"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yáo
Bopomofo:	ㄧㄠˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	yau
Wade–Giles:	yao2
Cantonese Yale:	ngàauh
Jyutping:	ngaau4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ngâu
Japanese Kana:	コウ kō (on'yomi) まじわる majiwaru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	효 hyo
Names
Japanese name(s):	爻/こう kō まじわる majiwaru
Hangul:	점괘 jeomgwe
Stroke order animation

Radical 89 or radical double x (爻部) meaning "trigrams" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

This radical does not exist in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	爻
+5	爼
+7	爽
+10	爾

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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