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Radical 151

traditional Chinese radical bean (U+2F96)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ242520 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radical 151 or radical bean (豆部) meaning "bean" is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals. It is one of 20 which are composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 68 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

豆 is also the 152nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 豆 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. Specifically it is a third grade kanji.

References

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.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Radical 151” is traditional Chinese radical bean (U+2F96). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Radical, traditional and Chinese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Radical, traditional and Chinese is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “traditional Chinese radical bean (U+2F96)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q242520. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Radical 151” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.