Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 JP (=黑)
+3 SC/TC/KO/JP
+4
+5
+6 SC (=黶)
+7
+8 SC (=黷) SC (=黲)
+9
+10
+11
+13
+14
+15
+16

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