彐 · jì

snout

Radical pronunciation

Radical summary

#58

Kangxi

3

Strokes

#46

Frequency

Visual hint

A pig's snout or head seen from above: three strokes forming an animal head with a short muzzle.

Suggests an animal head, snout, or a lateral head shape.

varies

Trace the radical, simplified, traditional, and variant forms when available.

彐

2 examples

录

lù

to record; recording

HSK 3

彗

huì

broom; comet

HSK 6

Pig-snout radical. Found in 录 (to record), 彖 (to interpret a hexagram), 肆 (unrestrained).

A pig's protruding snout: three strokes making a short square head, like looking straight at a pig's face.

彑: 彐 and 彑 are variants of each other, essentially identical in most characters.

What radical is this: 彐?