Leather radical 革 (gé): 6 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Leather radical 革 (gé): 6 characters革 (gé) is Kangxi radical no. 177, “leather”. In this form it is written with 9 strokes.As a radical, 革 (gé) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “leather” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.The characters range from 9 to 18 strokes. None of them is in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 0 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 鞋 (xié) shoe.Characters with this radical9 strokes

革 (gé) - animal hide

13 strokes

靶 (bǎ) - target

靴 (xuē) - boots

15 strokes

鞋 (xié) - shoe

17 strokes

鞠 (jū) - to bow, to bend

18 strokes

鞭 (biān) - whip or lash

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License