Radical 77 or radical stop () meaning "stop" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 99 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 73rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution 止 Component of 疋, 走, 足, and 辵; compare 夂 and 夊.
正 Phono-semantic compound: phonetic 丁 (*tˤeŋ) + semantic 止
步 Compare 比, 舛, 韋. Bottom part unrelated to 少.
Derived characters
Strokes Characters +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 (=步) JP (=步) +5 +6 (= -> 刀) +8 +9 JP (=歲) +10 JP (=歷) +11 +12 +14
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji. References
Literature
External links
Unihan Database - U+6B62