Radical 61 or radical heart () meaning "heart" is one of 34 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into , which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into .
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
is also the 98th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
Evolution
Derived characters
Sinogram
As a single radical the Chinese character means heart. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
References
Literature
Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
See also
Heart (Chinese medicine)