Radical 162 or radical walk () meaning "

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" is one of the 20

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s (214 radicals in total) composed of 7

strokes A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop funct ...

. When used as a component, this radical character transforms into ⻍, ⻌, or ⻎ (See #Variant forms). In the ''

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'', there are 381 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. (3 strokes), the component form of , is also the 49th indexing component in the ''

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'' predominantly adopted by

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dictionaries published in

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, with listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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character

Derived characters

Variant forms

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This radical character has different forms in different languages. Traditionally, this radical character is printed with two dots, while in written

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, only the one-dot form is used. In post-war Japan, with the reform of the national language (

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), the '' tōyō kanji'' () policy was published, with some kanji simplified. This includes the adjustment of characters with radical 162 by replacing the two-dot form ⻍ (4 strokes in dictionaries) with its one-dot form ⻌ (3 strokes in dictionaries) in printing typefaces. This simplification was then inherited by the less mandatory ''

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'' () policy. This change did not happen among '' hyōgai kanji'' (Chinese characters not covered by ''

''). In the 2010 revision of ''jōyō kanji'', however, included several ''hyōgai kanji'' in the new version of ''jōyō kanji'' table, causing inconsistency in the printing form of radical 162 among commonly used Chinese characters in Japanese. Moreover, in the 1983 version of JIS coded kanji character sets, ⻍ in some '' hyōgai kanji'' were also simplified; This change was partially reverted in its newer versions. The 2010 ''Revised Jōyō Kanji Table'' stipulates that despite the inconsistency in the printing forms, this radical character should always be written with one dot. In mainland China, the replacement of the two-dot ⻍ with one-dot ⻌ (3 strokes in dictionaries) happens when the '' xin zixing'' (new typeface) was popularized. The change also applies to traditional Chinese characters (e.g. ) used in mainland China. In Taiwan's

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and Hong Kong's

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, the one-dot form with two twists ⻎ (4 strokes in dictionaries) is adopted, despite the more traditional form ⻍ is still widely used in publications.

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+8FB5
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