Radical 76 or radical lack () meaning "

owe Owe is a surname or given name, a spelling variation of Ove (given name), Ove. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Owe Adamson (born 1935), Swedish cyclist and Olympic competitor *Owe Hellberg (born 1953), Swedish politician *Owe J ...

", "", or " yawn" is one of the 34

Kangxi radical The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

s (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

radical Radical may refer to: Politics and ideology Politics *Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change *Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...

. is also the 90th indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Oracle bone script Oracle bone script () is an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest kno ...

character File:欠-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:欠-seal.svg,

Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Name ...

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External links

Unihan Database - U+6B20
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