Radical 118


Radical 118 or radical bamboo meaning "bamboo" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals composed of 6 strokes. The radical character usually appears at the top of characters and transforms into.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, 953 characters are found under this radical.
竹 is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing [Chinese Character Components] predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 竹 is a Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It means bamboo or the middle of a 3-tier ranking system.