Radical 65

支
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支 (U+652F) "branch"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zhī
Bopomofo:	ㄓ
Wade–Giles:	chih1
Cantonese Yale:	jī
Jyutping:	zi1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chi
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi) ささ-える sasa-eru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	지 ji
Names
Chinese name(s):	支字旁 zhīzìpáng 支字底 zhīzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	支える/ささえる 支繞/しにょう shinyō 枝繞/えだにょう edanyō 十又/じゅうまた jūmata
Hangul:	지탱할 jitaenghal
Stroke order animation

Radical 65 or radical branch (支部) meaning "branch" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

支 is also the 65th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	支
+2	攰
+5	攱
+8	攲
+12	攳

Character

In the Japanese educational system the character 支 is a Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.^[1]

References

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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