Radical 78 or radical death () meaning "death", "decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 67th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.
Evolution Unrelated to 夕.
死 Phono-semantic compound: semantic 歹 + phonetic 尸 ("corpse"; OC *hli).王鹏远.古汉字“变形音化”现象再研究[D].复旦大学,2022.DOI:10.27024/d.cnki.gfudu.2022.000001.
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +2 +3 SC (=殲) +4 SC (=歿) +5 SC (=殤) +6 SC/JP (=殘) +7 SC (=殞) SC (=殮) +8 SC/TC/Kangxi/JP/KO SC (=殫) +9 +10 SC (=殯) +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 (=殲) +17
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External links
Unihan Database - U+6B79