{{Short description|Kangxi radical}} {{redirect|丿|the Japanese katakana character {{Lang|ja|ノ}}|No (kana)}} {{Infobox Kangxi radical |4|uni=4E3F |meaning = slash |pny = piě |bopo = ㄆ一ㄝˇ |wade = p'ieh3 |jyutping = pit3 |yale = pit |poj = phia̍t |cn = 撇 piě |hang = 삐침 ppichim |hanja = 별 byeol |onyomi = ヘツ hetsu |jp = ノ no<br />はらいぼう haraibō |hanviet = phiệt }} '''Radical 4''' or '''radical slash''' ({{Lang|zh-Hant|丿部}}) meaning '''"slash"''' or '''"bend"''' is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 33 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
It is highly similar to the Japanese katakana, no ({{Lang|ja|ノ}}), thus colloquially referred to as "no" in Japanese.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|丿}} is also the 4th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
==Evolution== <gallery class="skin-invert-image"> 丿-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character 丿-seal.svg|Small seal script character </gallery>
==Derived characters== {| class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters |---- | +0 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|丿}} {{Linktext|乀}} {{Linktext|乁}} |---- | +1 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乂}} {{Linktext|乃}} {{Linktext|乄}}<sup>JP</sup> |---- | +2 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|久}} {{Linktext|乆}} (=久) {{Linktext|乇}} {{Linktext|么}}<sup>SC</sup> (= {{Linktext|麼}} <small>-> 广</small>) {{Linktext|义}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|義}} <small>-> 羊</small>) {{Linktext|乊}} {{Linktext|之}} {{Linktext|乡}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|鄉}} <small>-> 邑</small>) |---- | +3 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乌}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|烏}} <small>-> 火</small>) {{Linktext|乏}} |---- | +4 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乍}} {{Linktext|乎}} {{Linktext|乐}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|樂}} <small>-> 木</small>) |---- | +5 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|丢}} {{Linktext|眾}} {{Linktext|乒}} {{Linktext|乓}} {{Linktext|乔}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|喬}} <small>-> 口</small>) |---- | +6 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乕}} (={{Linktext|虎}} <small>-> 虍</small>) |---- | +7 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乖}} |---- | +8 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乗}}<sup>JP</sup> (=乘) |---- | +9 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乘}} |}
==In calligraphy== <gallery> Yongzi Bafa 6.svg|The 6th principle stroke 掠 ''lüè'' as in 永 Yongzi Bafa 7.svg|The 7th principle stroke 啄 ''zhuó'' as in 永 </gallery> The only left-falling stroke in Radical 4, known as {{Lang|zh|撇}} ''piě'', is basic to Chinese calligraphy. It has two different forms, 掠 ''lüè'' and 啄 ''zhuó'', in the eight principles of 永 ({{Lang|zh|永字八法}} ''Yǒngzì Bāfǎ'').
== Literature == * {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }} * {{cite book|last= Leyi |first= Li |title= Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases |year= 1993 |location= Beijing |isbn= 978-7-5619-0204-2 }}
==External links== {{Commonscat|Radical 004}} *[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=4E3F Unihan Database - U+4E3F]
{{Kangxi Radicals}} {{Simplified Chinese radicals}}
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