Radical 135

Radical 135 or radical tongue meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters to be found under this radical.
舌 is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Strokes	Characters
+0
+2	^JP
+4
+5
+6
+8
+9
+10
+12
+13

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fifth grade kanji.