Radical 96


Radical 96 or radical jade meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals composed of 5 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into ⺩ consisting of four strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 473 characters to be found under this radical.
The variant form of this radical, 王, is used as the 61st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form 玉, along with the left component variant ⺩, are listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

玉 (jade)

王 (king)

Derived characters

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 first grade kanji.

Literature