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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 ...

Kangxi radicals. A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. The 214 Kangxi radicals are the de-facto standard used as the basis for most modern Chinese dictionaries. ... 47: 巛 (川, 巜) chuān ...

The Kangxi dictionary lists a total of 47,035 characters divided among the 214 radicals, for an average of 220 characters per radical, but distribution is unequal, the median number of characters per radical being 64, with a maximum number of 1,902 characters (for radical 140 艸) and a minimum number of five (radical 138 艮).The radicals have between one and seventeen strokes, the median ...