Radical 182
Radical 182 or radical wind () meaning "wind" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 182 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. In Taoist cosmology, 風 (wind) is the nature component of the Bagua diagram  Xùn. , the simplified form of , is the 91st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form  is listed as its associated indexing component. Evolution

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Variant forms
In the Kangxi Dictionary and modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, the stroke above  in the radical character  is horizontal, while it is a left-falling stroke in other languages. 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 second grade kanji

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External links

Unihan Database - U+98A8

Kyōiku kanji
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