Radical 4

Radical 4 or radical slash meaning "slash" or "bend" is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 33 characters to be found under this radical.
It is highly similar to the Japanese katakana, no, thus colloquially referred to as "no" in Japanese.
丿 is also the 4th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In calligraphy

The only left-falling stroke in Radical 4, known as 撇 piě, is basic to Chinese calligraphy. It has two different forms, 掠 lüè and 啄 zhuó, in the eight principles of 永.

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