入
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入 (U+5165) "enter"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	rù
Bopomofo:	ㄖㄨˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	ruh
Wade–Giles:	ju4
Cantonese Yale:	yahp
Jyutping:	jap6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ji̍p
Japanese Kana:	ニュウ nyū (on'yomi) い-る i-ru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	입 ip
Names
Japanese name(s):	入頭/いりがしら irigashira 入屋根/いりやね iriyane
Hangul:	들 deul
Stroke order animation

Radical 11 or radical enter (入部) meaning "enter", "come in (to)", "join" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 28 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Simplified Chinese, this radical is affiliated to radical 9 (Radical man, 人), and many Chinese characters formerly consisted of 入 were adjusted and fell under radical man. While most Japanese dictionaries keep radical 11 as an independent radical, similar adjustments also happened in Japanese kanji simplification.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Variant forms

There is a design nuance in different printing typefaces for this radical. Traditionally, the second stroke 入 starts with a short horizontal line in printing typeface. In handwriting form, the right-falling stroke goes more smoothly. The traditional typeface design is used in modern Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typefaces. In Mainland China, after the adoption of Simplified Chinese and the new character forms, the standard printing typeface design for 入 was altered to look like its handwriting form. Depending on each font's design, either form could be used in Traditional Chinese typefaces and Simplified Chinese typefaces.

The short horizontal line exists only in printing typeface, not in any handwriting form.

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.^[1] It is a first grade kanji^[1]