Radical 182

Radical 182 or radical wind meaning "wind" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 182 characters to be found under this radical.
In Taoist cosmology, 風 is the nature component of the Bagua diagram Xùn.
风, the simplified form of 風, is the 91st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 風 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, the stroke above 虫 in the radical character 風 is horizontal, while it is a left-falling stroke in other languages.

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 second grade kanji.