Radical 175

Radical 175 or radical wrong meaning "" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals composed of 8 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters to be found under this radical.
非 is also the 171st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Variant forms

This radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form 非. This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.

Kanji

In the Japanese educational system this is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. Students are required to learn it in the fifth grade.

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