Radical 170

Radical 170 or radical mound (阜部) meaning "mound" or "dam" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into 阝 (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with 阝 on the right derived from 邑).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

阜 is also the 175th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 阝 (left) listed as its associated indexing component.