Radical 77

Radical 77 or radical stop (止部) meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

止
Radical 77 (U+2F4C)
止 (U+6B62) "stop"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zhǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄓˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	jyy
Wade–Giles:	chih3
Cantonese Yale:	jí
Jyutping:	zi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chí
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi) と-まる to-maru / と-める to-meru / や-める ya-meru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	지 ji
Names
Japanese name(s):	止める/とめる tomeru 止偏/とめへん tomehen
Hangul:	그칠 geuchil
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

止 is also the 73rd 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	止
+1	正
+2	此
+3	步
+4	武 歧 歨 (=步) 歩JP (=步)
+5	歪 歫
+6	歬 (=前 -> 刀) 歭
+8	歮
+9	歰 歱 歲 歳JP (=歲)
+10	歴JP (=歷)
+11	歵 歶
+12	歷
+14	歸

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 止 is a 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+6B62