Radical 94

犬
Radical 94 (U+2F5D)
犬 (U+72AC) "dog"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	quǎn
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄩㄢˇ
Wade–Giles:	ch'üan3
Cantonese Yale:	hyún
Jyutping:	hyun2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	khián
Japanese Kana:	ケン ken (on'yomi) いぬ inu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	견 gyeon
Names
Chinese name(s):	(犭) 反犬旁 fǎnquǎnpáng
Japanese name(s):	犬/いぬ inu (犭) 獣偏/けものへん kemonohen
Hangul:	개 gae
Stroke order animation

Radical 94 or radical dog (犬部) meaning "dog" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

犬 is also the 66th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 犭 being its associated indexing component.

In Japanese, 犬 is a Kanji symbol, and its Hiragana version is "いぬ" (inu).

犬, just like most Kanji, is used in both Japanese and Chinese languages.

The symbol is pronounced "quăn" in Chinese.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	犬 犭Component only
+1	犮
+2	犯 犰
+3	犱 犲 犳 犴 犵 状SC/JP (=狀) 犷SC (=獷) 犸SC (=獁)
+4	犹SC (=猶) 犺 犻 犼 犽 犾 犿 狀 狁 狂 狃 狄 狅 狆 狇 狈SC (=狽)
+5	狉 狊 狋 狌 狍 狎 狏 狐 狑 狒 狓 狔 狕 狖 狗 狘 狙 狚 狛 狜 狝SC (=獮) 狞SC (=獰)
+6	狟 狠 狡 狢 狣 狤 狥 狦 狧 狨 狩 狪 狫 独SC/JP (=獨) 狭SC/JP (=狹) 狮SC (=獅) 狯SC (=獪) 狰SC (=猙) 狱SC (=獄) 狲SC (=猻)
+7	倐 狳 狴 狵 狶 狷 狸 狹 狺 狻 狼 狽 狾 狿 猀 猁 猂 猃SC (=獫)
+8	猄 猅 猆 猇 猈 猉 猊 猋 猌 猍 猎SC (=獵) 猏 猐 猑 猒 猓 猔 猕SC (=獼) 猖 猗 猘 猙 猚 猛 猜 猝 猞 猟JP (=獵) 猠 猡SC (=玀) 猪SC/JP (=豬) 猫SC/JP variant (=貓 -> 豸) 猧GB TC variant
+9	猢 猣 猤 猥 猦 猧Traditional variant 猨 猩 猬 猭 献SC/JP (=獻) 猯 猰 猱 猲 猳 猴 猵 猶 猷 猸 猹
+10	猺 猻 猼 猽 猾 猿 獀 獁 獂 獃 獄 獅 獆 獇 獈 獉 獊 獓SC variant 獒SC variant 獏SC variant
+11	獌 獍 獎 獏TC variant 獐 獑 獒TC variant 獓TC variant 獔 獕 獚SC variant
+12	獋 (=獋) 獖 獗 獘 獙 獚TC variant 獛 獜 獝 獞 獟 獠 獡 獢 獣JP (=獸) 獤 獦SC variant
+13	獥 獦TC variant 獧 獨 獩 獪 獫 獬 獭SC (=獺) 獲JP/GB TC variant
+14	獮 獯 獰 獱 獲Traditional variant 獳 獴SC variant 獷GB TC variant
+15	獴TC variant 獵 獶 獷Traditional variant 獸
+16	獹 獺 獻
+17	獼 獽 獾SC variant
+18	獾TC variant 獿
+19	玀
+20	玁 玂 玃

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 first 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+72AC