矛
← 109 Radical 110 (U+2F6D) 111 →
矛 (U+77DB) "spear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	máo
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄠˊ
Wade–Giles:	mao2
Cantonese Yale:	maau4
Jyutping:	maau4
Japanese Kana:	ボウ bō / ム mu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	모 mo
Names
Chinese name(s):	矛字旁 máozìpáng
Japanese name(s):	矛/ほこ hoko 矛偏/ほこへん hokohen
Hangul:	창 chang
Stroke order animation

Radical 110 or radical spear (矛部) meaning "spear" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 65 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

矛 is also the 121st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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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

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.