Radical 174
Radical 174 or radical blue meaning "green" or "blue" or "black" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals composed of 8 strokes. It is also the character representing the color ao in Japanese, a general term covering both blue and green.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters to be found under this radical.
The xin zixing form, 青, is the 168th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters
Variant forms
This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages and different individual characters.is used in traditional Ming typefaces as well as in the Kangxi Dictionary, but it rarely appears in handwritten scripts compared to.
In modern Chinese, mainland China's xin zixing and Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters adopted 青 that resembles the written form, while Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters adopted a slightly different form, 青.
In modern Japanese, jōyō kanji adopts the handwritten form 青 and applies it to printing typefaces, while 靑 is used for hyōgai kanji.
| Kangxi Dict. Japanese Korean | Mainland China Hong Kong Japanese | Taiwan |
| 靑 | 青 | 青 |