Radical 121
# Radical 121

Radical 121 or radical jar (缶部) meaning "jar" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

缶 is also the 133rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Japanese, 缶 is the shinjitai form of 罐, but the two characters are historically irrelevant.

## Evolution

* Oracle bone script character
* Large seal script character
* Small seal script character

## Derived characters

| Strokes | Characters |
| - | - |
| +0 | 缶 |
| +2 | 缷 (=卸 -> 卩) |
| +3 | 缸 |
| +4 | 缹 缺 缼 (=缺) |
| +5 | 缻 (=缶‎) 缽 |
| +6 | 缾 (=瓶 -> 瓦) 缿 罀 |
| +8 | 罁 $罂^{SC}$ (=罌) |
| +10 | 罃 |
| +11 | 罄 罅 罆 |
| +12 | 罇 (=樽 -> 木) 罈 罉 |
| +13 | 罊 罋 (=甕 -> 瓦) |
| +14 | 罌 |
| +15 | 罍 |
| +16 | 罎 (=罈) 罏 |
| +18 | 罐 |

## Literature

* Fazzioli, 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 0-89659-774-1.
