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Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.. 巛 is also the 60th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published ...

Every character in Chinese has one radical, usually on the left or top of the character. ... 47: 川 巛 (V) 巜 (V) ... This combines the meaning of the character (I), the two character components (spear and hand) and a clue about how to draw the character (through) all in one sentence. Understand the influence of pop culture.

There are 214 radicals in the Chinese language and they can appear just about anywhere in a character. For example, in the character 好, the radical 女 (nǚ, meaning female, woman) is on the left side of the character and in the character 闯 (chuăng; to rush, to break through) the radical 门 (mén, door) is outside.