# Radical 4

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{{Short description|Kangxi radical}}
{{redirect|丿|the Japanese [katakana](/source/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 radical](/source/Kangxi_radical)s that are composed of only one [stroke](/source/Stroke_(CJK_character)).

In the ''[Kangxi Dictionary](/source/Kangxi_Dictionary)'', there are 33 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this [radical](/source/Radical_(Chinese_characters)).

It is highly similar to the Japanese [katakana](/source/katakana), [no](/source/no_(kana)) ({{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](/source/Table_of_Indexing_Chinese_Character_Components)'' predominantly adopted by [Simplified Chinese](/source/Simplified_Chinese_characters) dictionaries published in [mainland China](/source/mainland_China).

==Evolution==
<gallery class="skin-invert-image">
丿-bigseal.svg|[Large seal script](/source/Large_seal_script) character
丿-seal.svg|[Small seal script](/source/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](/source/Radical_53)</small>) {{Linktext|义}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|義}} <small>-> [羊](/source/Radical_123)</small>) {{Linktext|乊}} {{Linktext|之}} {{Linktext|乡}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|鄉}} <small>-> [邑](/source/Radical_163)</small>) 
|----
| +3 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乌}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|烏}} <small>-> [火](/source/Radical_86)</small>) {{Linktext|乏}}
|----
| +4 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乍}} {{Linktext|乎}} {{Linktext|乐}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|樂}} <small>-> [木](/source/Radical_75)</small>)
|----
| +5 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|丢}} {{Linktext|眾}} {{Linktext|乒}} {{Linktext|乓}} {{Linktext|乔}}<sup>SC</sup> (={{Linktext|喬}} <small>-> [口](/source/Radical_30)</small>)
|----
| +6 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|乕}} (={{Linktext|虎}} <small>-> [虍](/source/Radical_141)</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](/source/Chinese_calligraphy). It has two different forms, 掠 ''lüè'' and 啄 ''zhuó'', in the [eight principles of 永](/source/Eight_Principles_of_Yong) ({{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](/source/Abbeville_Publishing_Group_(Abbeville_Press%2C_Inc.)) |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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