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Chinese character radical
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(U+74DC) "melon"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:guā
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄚ
Wade–Giles:kua1
Cantonese Yale:gwā
Jyutping:gwaa1
Japanese Kana:カ ka (on'yomi)
うり uri (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:과 gwa
Names
Chinese name(s):瓜字旁 guāzìpáng
Japanese name(s):瓜/うり uri
Hangul:오이 oi
Stroke order animation

Radical 97 or radical melon (瓜部) meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

瓜 is also the 113th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

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Variant forms

There is a design nuance between the form of 瓜 in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and 瓜 became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.

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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
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See also: Kangxi radicals
Simplified Chinese characters radicals (indexing components)
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.
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