Radical 101 or radical use () meaning "" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5

strokes A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop funct ...

. In the ''

Kangxi Dictionary The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' ( (Compendium of standard characters from the Kangxi period), published in 1716, was the most authoritative dictionary of Chinese characters from the 18th century through the early 20th. The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing ...

'', there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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 shell#Plastron, turtle plastrons used in pyromancy, pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millen ...

character File:用-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:用-bigseal.svg,

Large seal script The large seal script or great seal script () is a traditional reference to Chinese writing from before the Qin dynasty (i.e. before 221 BCE), and is now popularly understood to refer narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou ...

character File:用-seal.svg, Small seal script character

Derived characters

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent

Chinese character Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanj ...

. It is one of the

Kyōiku kanji , also known as is a list of 1,026 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readin ...

or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji

References

Literature

* * {{Kangxi Radicals Kyōiku kanji 101