Radical 158 or radical body () meaning "body" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 97 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 160th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +3 +4 (= -> 耳) SC/JP (=軀) +5 (= -> 骨) +6 (=躲) +7 (=躬) +8 (= -> 衣) (= -> 矢) +9 +10 +11 +12 (=躲 / -> 口) (= -> 耳) JP (=軈) +13 (= -> 骨) +14 +17 JP +20
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. It is a third grade kanji.
References
Literature
External links
Unihan Database - U+8EAB