Radical 197

鹵
← 196 Radical 197 (U+2FC4) 198 →
鹵 (U+9E75) "salt"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	lǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	lu3
Cantonese Yale:	lou5
Jyutping:	lou5
Japanese Kana:	ロ ro (on'yomi) しお shio (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	로 ro
Hán-Việt:	lỗ
Names
Japanese name(s):	ろ ro しお shio
Hangul:	소금밭 sogeumbat
Stroke order animation

Radical 197 or radical salt (鹵部) meaning "salt" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卤 (7 strokes), the simplified form of 鹵 is the 156th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 鹵 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	卤SC (=鹵) 鹵
+4	鹶
+5	鹷
+8	鹸JP (=鹼)
+9	鹹 鹾SC (=鹺)
+10	鹺 鹻 (=鹼)
+13	鹼 鹽

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.

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