Radical 101

用
Radical 101 (U+2F64)
用 (U+7528) "use"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yòng
Bopomofo:	ㄩㄥˋ
Wade–Giles:	yung4
Cantonese Yale:	yung6
Jyutping:	jung6
Japanese Kana:	ヨウ yō / ユウ yū (on'yomi) もち-いる mochiiru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	용 yong
Names
Japanese name(s):	用/もちいる mochiiru
Hangul:	쓸 sseul
Stroke order animation

Radical 101 or radical use (用部) meaning "use" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
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  Warring States period bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Shuowen ancient script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character
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  Han dynasty Clerical script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	用 甩
+1	甪
+2	甫 甬
+4	甭 甮
+7	甯 (=寧 -> 宀)

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.

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.