Chinese Characters Radicals List

Last Updated on August 1, 2017

This article has the 214 Chinese Radicals list used for categorizing all Chinese characters. Though there are thousands of Chinese characters, if you learn these 214 Chinese radicals, learning additional Chinese characters will be much easier. Before modern times, Chinese dictionaries were sorted by radicals, not by some kind of Romanization system like Pinyin, so knowing Chinese radicals is incredibly useful.

The 214 Chinese Characters Radicals are also known as the Kangxi radicals. The following list is the Traditional Chinese Radicals list, though it is quite similar to the Simplified Chinese Radical list, and is incredibly useful for improving your Chinese.

Chinese Characters Radical List

radical number	Pinyin	character	variants	number of strokes
1	yi1	一		1
2	gun3	丨		1
3	zhu3	丶		1
4	pie3	丿		1
5	yi3	乙		1
6	jue2	亅		1
7	er2	二		2
8	tou2	亠		2
9	ren2	人	亻	2
10	er2	儿		2
11	ru4	入		2
12	ba1	八		2
13	jiong1	冂		2
14	mi4	冖		2
15	bing1	冫		2
16	ji1	几		2
17	kan3	凵		2
18	dao1	刀		2
19	li4	力		2
20	bao1	勹		2
21	bi3	匕		2
22	fang1	匚		2
23	xi4	匸		2
24	shi2	十		2
25	bu3	卜		2
26	jie2	卩		2
27	han3	厂		2
28	si1,mou3	厶		2
29	you4	又		2
30	kou3	口		3
31	wei2	囗		3
32	tu3	土		3
33	shi4	士		3
34	zhi3	夂		3
35	sui1	夊		3
36	xi1	夕		3
37	da4	大		3
38	nü3	女		3
39	zi3	子		3
40	mian2	宀		3
41	cun4	寸		3
42	xiao3	小		3
43	wang1	尢		3
44	shi1	尸		3
45	che4	屮		3
46	shan1	山		3
47	chuan1	巛		3
48	gong1	工		3
49	ji3	己		3
50	jin1	巾		3
51	gan1	干		3
52	yao1	幺		3
53	yan3	广		3
54	yin3	廴		3
55	gong3	廾		3
56	yi4	弋		3
57	gong1	弓		3
58	ji4	彐		3
59	shan1	彡		3
60	chi4	彳		3
61	xin1	心		4
62	ge1	戈		4
63	hu4	戶		4
64	shou3	手	扌	4
65	zhi1	支		4
66	pu1	攴	攵	4
67	wen2	文		4
68	dou3	斗		4
69	jin1	斤		4
70	fang1	方		4
71	wu2	无		4
72	ri4	日		4
73	yue1	曰		4
74	yue4	月		4
75	mu4	木		4
76	qian4	欠		4
77	zhi3	止		4
78	dai3	歹		4
79	shu1	殳		4
80	wu2	毋		4
81	bi3	比		4
82	mao2	毛		4
83	qi4	气		4
84	shi4	氏		4
85	shui3	水	氵	4
86	huo3	火	灬	4
87	zhao3	爪		4
88	fu4	父		4
89	yao2	爻		4
90	qiang2	爿		4
91	pian4	片		4
92	ya2	牙		4
93	niu2	牛		4
94	quan3	犬		4
95	xuan2	玄		5
96	yu4	玉		5
97	gua1	瓜		5
98	wa3	瓦		5
99	gan1	甘		5
100	sheng1	生		5
101	yong4	用		5
102	tian2	田		5
103	pi3	疋		5
104	ne4	疒		5
105	bo1	癶		5
106	bai2	白		5
107	pi2	皮		5
108	min3	皿		5
109	mu4	目		5
110	mao2	矛		5
111	shi1	失		5
112	shi2	石		5
113	shi4	示,	礻	5
114	rou2	禸		5
115	he2	禾		5
116	xue2	穴		5
117	li4	立		5
118	zhu2	竹		6
119	mi3	米		6
120	mi4	糸	糹	6
121	fou3	缶		6
122	wang3	网	罒	6
123	yang2	羊		6
124	yu3	羽		6
125	lao3	老		6
126	er2	而		6
127	lei3	耒		6
128	er3	耳		6
129	yu4	聿		6
130	rou4	肉		6
131	chen2	臣		6
132	zi4 or zi3?	自		6
133	zhi4	至		6
134	jiu4	臼		6
135	she2	舌		6
136	chuan3	舛		6
137	zhou1	舟		6
138	gen3 or gen4	艮		6
139	se4	色		6
140	cao3	艸	艹	6
141	hu1	虍		6
142	chong2	虫		6
143	xie3, xue4	血		6
144	xing2	行		6
145	yi1	衣	衤	6
146	xi1	西		6
147	jian4	見		7
148	jiao3	角		7
149	yan2	言	訁	7
150	gu3	谷		7
151	dou4	豆		7
152	shi3	豕		7
153	zhi4	豸		7
154	bei4	貝		7
155	chi4	赤		7
156	zou3	走		7
157	zu2	足		7
158	shen1	身		7
159	che1	車		7
160	xin1	辛		7
161	chen2	辰		7
162	chuo4	辵	辶	7
163	yi4	邑	阝	7
164	you3	酉		7
165	cai3	采		7
166	li3	里		7
167	jin1	金	釒	8
168	zhang3	長		8
169	men2	門		8
170	fu4	阜	阝	8
171	li4	隶		8
172	zhui1	隹		8
173	yu3	雨		8
174	qing1	青		8
175	fei1	非		8
176	mian4	面		8
177	ge2	革		9
178	wei2	韋		9
179	jiu3	韭		9
180	yin1	音		9
181	ye4	頁		9
182	feng1	風		9
183	fei1	飛		9
184	shi2	食	飠	9
185	shou3	首		9
186	xiang1	香		9
187	ma3	馬		10
188	gu3	骨		10
189	gao1	高		10
190	biao1	髟		10
191	dou4	鬥		10
192	chang4	鬯		10
193	ge2	鬲		10
194	gui3	鬼		10
195	yu2	魚		11
196	niao3	鳥		11
197	lu3	鹵		11
198	lu4	鹿		11
199	mai4	麥		11
200	ma2	麻		11
201	huang2	黃		12
202	shu3	黍		12
203	hei1	黑		12
204	zhi3	黹		12
205	min3	黽		13
206	ding3	鼎		13
207	gu3	鼓		13
208	shu3	鼠		13
209	bi2	鼻		14
210	qi2	齊		14
211	chi3	齒		15
212	long2	龍		16
213	gui1	龜		16
214	yue4	龠		17

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Chinese Characters Radicals List

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