Radical 70 or radical square () meaning "square" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 Stroke (CJK character), strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this Radical (Chinese characters), radical. is also the 94th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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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 second grade kanji

References

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+65B9
{{Simplified Chinese radicals Kyōiku kanji Kangxi radicals, 070 Simplified Chinese radicals, 094