Radical 30

口くち
口くち
口くち (U+53E3) "mouth"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	kǒu
Bopomofo:	ㄎㄡˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	koou
Wade–Giles:	kʻou3
Cantonese Yale:	háu
Jyutping:	hau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kháu (col.); khó͘ (lit.)
Japanese Kana:	コー kō (on'yomi); くち kuchi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	구 ku
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Side)口くち字じ旁つくり kǒuzìpáng (Top)口くち字じ頭あたま kǒuzìtǒu (Bottom)口くち字じ底そこ kǒuzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	口偏くちへん/くちへん kuchihen
Hangul:	입 ip
Stroke order animation

Radical 30 or radical mouth (口くち部ぶ) meaning "mouth" is one of 31 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 3 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,146 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

口くち is also the 37th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters


Strokes	Characters
+0	口くち
+2	古ふる句く另叧叨叩只ただ叫さけべ召叭叮可か台だい叱しか史ふみ右みぎ叴叵叶かのう (also SC form of 葉は -> 艸そうこう) 号ごう^SC/JP (=號ごう -> 虍) 司つかさ叹^SC (=嘆) 叺かます叻叼叽^SC (=嘰)
+3	叾叿吀吁 (also SC form of 籲 -> 竹たけ) 吂吃ども各かく吅吆吇合ごう吉よし吊つるし吋いんち同どう名な后きさき吏吐向むかい吒吓 (also SC form of 嚇) 吔吕^SC (=呂りょ) 吖吗^SC (=嗎) 吸
+4	吘吙吚君きみ吜吝しわ吞吟ぎん吠ほえ吡吢吣吤吥否いや吧吨 (also SC form of 噸とん) 吩吪含听^SC (=聽 -> 耳みみ) 吭ふえ吮启^SC (=啟けい -> 攴) 吰吱吲吳ご吴^SC (=吳ご) 吵吶吷吹吺吻吼ほえ吽うん吾われ吿呀呁呂りょ呃呄呅呆ほけ呇呈てい呉ご^JP (=吳ご) 告つげ呋呌呍呎呏呐^SC (=吶) 呑 (=吞) 呒^SC (=嘸さぞ) 呓^SC (=囈) 呔呕^SC (=嘔) 呖^SC (=嚦) 呗^SC (=唄うた) 员^SC (=員いん) 呙^SC (=咼) 呚呛^SC (=嗆) 呜^SC (=嗚)
+5	呝呞呟呠呡呢呣呤呥呦呧周しゅう呩呪のろい^JP (=咒) 呫呬呭呮呯呰呱呲味あじ呴呵しか呶呷あお呸呹呺呻呼よび命いのち呾呿咀咁咂咃咄咅咆咇咈咉咊 (=和わ) 咋和わ咍咎とがめ咏咐咑咒咓咔咕咖咗咘咙^SC (=嚨) 咚咛^SC (=嚀) 咜咝^SC (=噝) 咼^{GB TC variant}
+6	咞咟咠咡咢咣咤咥咦咧咨咩咪咫咬咭咮咯咰咱咲さき咳せき咴咵咶咷咸咹咺咻咼^{Traditional/JP variant} 咽のど咾咿哀あい品しな哂哃哄哅哆哇哈哉哊哋哌响^SC (=響ひびき -> 音おと) 哎哏哐哑^SC (=啞) 哒^SC (=噠) 哓^SC (=嘵) 哔^SC (=嗶) 哕^SC (=噦) 哖哗哘哙^SC (=噲) 哚哛哜哝^SC (=噥) 哞哟^SC (=喲)
+7	哠員いん哢哣哤哥哦哧哨哩まいる哪哫哬哭哮たけ哯哰哱哲あきら哳哴哵哶哷哸哹哺哻哼哽哾哿唀唁唂唃唄うた唅唆唇くちびる^{SC/JP/variant} (=脣 -> 肉にく) 唈唉唊唋唌唍唎唏唐とう唑唒唓唔唕唖おし^JP (=啞) 唳啄ついばめ唗唘 (=啓けい=啟けい -> 攴) 唙唚唛^SC (=嘜) 唜^KO 唝^SC (=嗊) 唞唟^KO 唠^SC (=嘮) 唡^SC (=啢) 唢^SC (=嗩) 唣唤^SC (=喚) 唥唦唧
+8	唨唩唪唫唬唭售唯ただ唰唱唲唴唵唶唷唸うな唹唺唻唼唽唾つば唿啀啁啂啃啅商しょう啇啈啉啊啋啌啍啎問とい啐啑啒啓けい^{JP/GB TC} (=啟けい -> 攴) 啔 (=啓けい=啟けい -> 攴) 啕啖啗啘啙啚 (=圖ず -> 囗) 啛啜すす啝啞啠 (=哲あきら) 啡啢啣啤啥啦啧^SC (嘖) 啨啩啪啫啬^SC (=嗇) 啭^SC (=囀さえず) 啮^SC (=嚙=齧かじ -> 齒は) 啯^SC (=嘓) 啰^SC (=囉) 啱啲啳啴^SC (=嘽) 啵啶啸^SC (=嘯) 啹喎^{SC variant} 喝かつ^JP
+9	啷啺啻啼啽啾啿喀喁喂喃善ぜん喅喆 (=哲あきら) 喇喈喉のど喊喋ちょう喌喍喎^{TC variant} 喏喐喑喒 (=咱) 喓喔喕喖喗喘喙喚喛喜き喝かつ^SC/TC/KO 喞^Kangxi (=唧) 喟喠喡喢喣喤喥喦喧やかまし喨喩たとえ^Kangxi/JP/KO (=喻) 喪も喫喬たかし喭單たん喯喰くえ喱喲喳喴喵営^JP (=營 -> 火ひ) 喷^SC (=噴) 喸^KO 喹喺喻喼喽^SC (=嘍) 喾^SC (=嚳) 嗏^{SC variant} 嗒^{SC variant} 嗗^{SC variant} 嗢^{SC/HK variant}
+10	喿嗀嗁嗂嗃嗄しゃがれ嗅嗆嗇嗈嗉嗊嗋嗌嗍嗎嗏^{TC variant} 嗐嗑嗒^{TC variant} 嗓嗔嗕嗖嗗^{TC variant} 嗘嗙嗚嗛嗜嗝嗞嗟嗠嗡嗢^{TC variant} 嗣嗤嗥嗦嗧嗨嗩嗪嗫^SC (=囁ささやき) 嗬嗭^KO 嗮嗯嗰嗱嗲嗳^SC (=噯) 嗴嗵^{SC variant} 嗶^{GB TC variant} 嗷^{SC variant} 嗸^{SC variant} 嗼^{SC variant}
+11	嗵^{TC variant} 嗶^{Traditional variant} 嗷^{TC variant} 嗸^{TC variant} 嗹嗺嗻嗼^{TC variant} 嗽うがい嗾嗿嘀嘁嘂嘃嘄嘅嘆嘇嘈嘉よしみ嘊嘋嘌嘍嘎嘏嘐嘑嘒嘓嘔嘕嘖嘗嘘うそ^SC/JP (=噓) 嘙嘚嘛嘜嘝嘞嘟嘠 (=嘎) 嘡嘢嘣嘤^SC (=嚶) 嘥嘦嘧嘨^JP (=嘯) 噌噑 (=嗥)
+12	嘩嘪嘫嘬嘭嘮嘯嘰嘱しょく嘲あざけ嘳嘴くちばし嘵嘶嘷(=嗥) 嘸さぞ嘹嘺嘻嘼嘽嘾嘿噀噁噂うわさ噃噄噅噆噇噈噉噊噋噍噎むせ噏噐(=器うつわ) 噒噓噔噕噖噗噘噙噚噛^JP (=嚙) 噜^SC (=嚕) 噝器うつわ^JP 噴噠^{GB TC variant} 噢^{SC variant} 噧^{GB TC variant} 噶^{SC variant}
+13	器うつわ^SC/TC/KO 噞噟 (=應おう -> 心しん) 噠^{Traditional variant} 噡噢^{TC variant} 噣噤噥噦噧^{Traditional variant} 噩噪噫噬噭噮噯噰噱噲噳噵 (=道みち -> 辵) 噶^{TC variant} 噷噸とん噹噺はなし^JP 噻噼噽嚃^{SC variant} 嚆^{SC variant} 嚄^{SC variant}
+14	噾噿嚀嚁嚂嚃^{TC variant} 嚄^{TC variant} 嚅嚆^{TC variant} 嚇嚈嚉嚊かかあ嚋嚌嚍嚎嚏くさめ嚐嚑嚒嚓嚝^{GB TC variant}
+15	嚔くさめ嚕嚖嚗嚘嚙嚚嚛嚜嚝^{Traditional variant} 嚞嚟嚠嚡嚢^JP (=囊) 嚣^SC (=囂)
+16	嚤嚥えん嚦嚧嚨嚩嚪嚫嚬嚭嚮嚯嚰嚴いむ^{GB TC variant}
+17	嚱嚲嚳嚴いむ^{Traditional variant} 嚵嚶嚷嚸嚹嚺嚽^{GB TC variant} 嚾^{SC variant} 嚿^{SC variant}
+18	嚻嚼嚽^{Traditional variant} 嚾^{TC variant} 嚿^{TC variant} 囀さえず囁ささやき囂囃囄囆^{GB TC variant} 囈^{GB TC variant}
+19	囅囆^{Traditional variant} 囇囈^{Traditional variant} 囉囊囋囎^JP
+20	囌^{GB TC variant} 囏 (=艱 -> 艮うしとら) 囐囒^{GB TC variant}
+21	囌^{Traditional variant} 囍囑しょく囒^{Traditional variant} 囓囔囕
+25	囖
+28	𡆟

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育きょういく漢字かんじ) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

External links

Unihan data for U+53E3

[:0-1] "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育きょういく漢字かんじ) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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