Slash Radical (丿) — Characters, Meaning and Practice Worksheet
丿 is the slash radical. It appears in 24 of the most common Chinese characters — these 12 are the ones worth learning first, and the worksheet below gives every one of them a pinyin header, a stroke-by-stroke model and blank Tianzige grids to copy into.
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What does 丿 mean?
Slash radical · 丿 piě · 1 strokes · a downward-left slash
It usually appears along one side of the character. The Origin column below shows what each character's parts do — many take their meaning from the radical, some take their sound from the other half.
Shapes: 丿
12 common characters with 丿
Ranked by how often they appear in real written Chinese. Every character links to its own page with a stroke-order animation and example words.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 么 | me | [interrogative particle] | |
| 儿 | ér | [nonsyllabic suffix for retroflection, especially in the Beijing dialect] | Simplified form of 兒, a picture of a child; compare 人 |
| 力 | lì | power, strength | A plow's head representing strength |
| 几 | jǐ | several; how much | A small table; compare 丌 |
| 少 | shǎo | few, rare | Grains of sand; 小 provides the pronunciation and meaning |
| 系 | xì | (academic) department; system, series | meaning from 糸 (thread) |
| 必 | bì | must, certainly | |
| 失 | shī | lose | Something 丿 falling from a hand 夫 |
| 乐 | lè | happy, joyful | Simplified form of 樂, a musical instrument with wood 木, strings 幺, and a pick 白 |
| 千 | qiān | 1,000 | |
| 乎 | hū | (classical particle similar to 于) in; at; from; because; than; (classi… | |
| 血 | xuè | blood | A chalice 皿 filled with blood 丿 |
Related Radicals
- 一One radical · yī72 common characters · one; the horizontal stroke
- 丨Line radical · gǔn17 common characters · a vertical line
- 丶Dot radical · zhǔ22 common characters · a single dot
- 乚Second radical · yǐ18 common characters · second (of the heavenly stems); a swallow in flight
- 二Two radical · èr17 common characters · two; a pair of horizontal lines
- 亠Lid radical26 common characters · the dot-and-line “lid” on top of a character
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