Radical 111

For the three stroke arrow radical (弋), see Radical 56.

矢
Radical 111 (U+2F6E)
矢 (U+77E2) "arrow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄕˇ
Wade–Giles:	shih3
Cantonese Yale:	chi2
Jyutping:	ci2
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi) や ya (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	시 si
Names
Chinese name(s):	矢字旁 shǐzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	矢/や ya 矢偏/やへん yahen
Hangul:	화살 hwasal
Stroke order animation

Radical 111 or radical arrow (矢部) meaning "arrow" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

矢 is also the 110th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	矢
+2	矣
+3	矤 知
+4	矦 矧 矨
+5	矩
+6	矪 矫
+7	矬 短
+8	矮
+12	矯 矰
+14	矱
+15	矲

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 矢 is a Chinese character that means arrow. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade.

Further reading

• 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+77E2