弓

Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical. 弓 is also the 53rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution弓弔A man (人) with an arrowhead thread. 弟A spear handle wrapped in a leather strap. 弗Rope wrapped around two sticks. Derived charactersSinogramAs an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji. ReferencesFurther readingFazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN .Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets"(PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN .External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 057.