Radical 214 meaning "flute" (龠部) is the only one of the 214 Kangxi radicals that is composed of 17 strokes, making it the radical that requires the most strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 21 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

is also the 201st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Pan flute and mouths (口 and ).

Characters with Radical 214

Literature

• Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993,

External links

• Unihan Database – U+9FA0