Radical 175

非
← 174 Radical 175 (U+2FAE) 176 →
非 (U+975E) "wrong"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	fēi
Bopomofo:	ㄈㄟ
Wade–Giles:	fei1
Cantonese Yale:	fei1
Jyutping:	fei1
Japanese Kana:	ヒ hi (on'yomi) あら-ず ara-zu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	비 bi
Hán-Việt:	phi, phỉ
Names
Japanese name(s):	あらず arazu
Hangul:	아닐 anil
Stroke order animation

Radical 175 or radical wrong (非部) meaning "wrong" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

非 is also the 171st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	非
+4	靟
+7	靠
+11	靡

Variant forms

This radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form 非. This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.

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  非 in Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• 
  非 in Simplified Chinese

Kanji

In the Japanese educational system this is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] Students are required to learn it in the fifth grade.^[1]

References

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.

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