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Radical 35 or radical go slowly (夊部) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 23 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

This radical is merged with radical go (夂) in Simplified Chinese and the writing forms are unified as 夂 (principal indexing component #44 in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components). No associated indexing component was left after the merger.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

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+590A