Radical 170 or radical mound () meaning "

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" or " dam" is one of the 9

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s (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with on the right derived from ). In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 175th indexing component in the ''

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dictionaries published in

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, with (left) listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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Large seal script The term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou dynasty (403 BCE), or more broadly to also include the ...

character File:阜-seal.svg,

Small seal script The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used i ...

character

Derived characters

Kanji

This kanji is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji or kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan. It was added because it is the second character in .

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Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+961C
{{Simplified Chinese radicals 170 175 Kyōiku kanji Gifu Prefecture