Radical 76

欠
欠
欠 (U+6B20) "owe, lack, yawn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	qiàn
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄧㄢˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	chiann
Wade–Giles:	chʻien4
Cantonese Yale:	him
Jyutping:	him3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	khiàm
Japanese Kana:	ケン ken (on'yomi); あくび akubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	흠 heum
Names
Chinese name(s):	欠字旁 qiànzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	欠伸/あくび akubi; 欠ける/かける kakeru; 欠旁/けんづくり kendzukuri; 吹き旁/ふきづくり fukidzukuri
Hangul:	하품 hapum
Stroke order animation

Radical 76 or radical lack (欠部) meaning "owe", "lack", or "yawn" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

欠 is also the 90th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	欠
+2	次^SC/JP/次^TC 欢^SC (=歡)
+4	欣欤^SC (=歟) 欥欦欧^SC/JP (=歐)
+5	欨欪
+6	欫欬欭欮欯欰欱
+7	欲欳欴欵欶欷欸
+8	欹欺欻欼欽款欿歄^{GB TC variant}
+9	欩歀歁歂歃歄^{Traditional variant} 歅歆歇歈
+10	歊歋歌歍
+11	歉歎歏歐歑歒歓^JP (=歡) 歔^{SC variant}
+12	歔^{TC variant} 歕歖歗歘歙歚
+13	歛歜歝
+14	歞歟
+15	歠歡^{GB TC variant}
+17	歡^{Traditional variant}

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a fourth 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.

External links

Unihan Database - U+6B20

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