Radical 81

比
← 80 Radical 81 (U+2F50) 82 →
比 (U+6BD4) "compare, compete"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	bǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄅㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:	pi3
Cantonese Yale:	béi
Jyutping:	bei2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	pí
Japanese Kana:	ヒ hi (on'yomi) くら-べる kura-beru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	비 bi
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Top) 比字頭/比字头 bǐzìtóu (Bottom) 比字底 bǐzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	並びヒ/ならびひ narabihi 比べる/くらべる kuraberu
Hangul:	견줄 gyeonjul
Stroke order animation

Radical 81 or radical compare (比部) meaning "compare" or "compete" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

比 is also the 71st 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	比
+2	毕SC (=畢 -> 田)
+5	毖 毗 毘
+6	毙SC (=斃 -> 攴)
+13	毚

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.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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