Radical 97
Radical 97 or radical melon meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters to be found under this radical.
瓜 is also the 113th 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 design nuance between the form of 瓜 in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke was broken into two strokes, and 瓜 became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.| Chinese | Chinese | Modern Japanese |
| 瓜 | 瓜 | 瓜 |
| 瓞 | 瓞 | 瓞 |