Radical 172

Radical 172 or radical short tailed bird meaning "bird" or "short-tailed bird" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals composed of 8 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 233 characters to be found under this radical.
隹 is also the 174th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Variant Forms

There is a difference in Japanese and Chinese in printing typefaces for the third stroke of this radical. In the Kangxi Dictionary and in Japanese, the form with a short line slanting downward to the left on top of the first horizontal line is used. In both Simplified Chinese and standard Traditional Chinese, the form with a dot slanting downwards to the right on top of the horizontal line is used, while the Kangxi Dictionary form is still widely used in Traditional Chinese publications.
This difference may also apply to handwritten forms, albeit not always strictly followed.

Kangxi Dict. Japanese Korean T. Chinese nonstandard	Trad. Chinese Simp. Chinese
隹	隹