Radical 16

几
← 15 Radical 16 (U+2F0F) 17 →
几 (U+51E0) "small table"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jī
Bopomofo:	ㄐ一
Wade–Giles:	chi1
Cantonese Yale:	gei1
Jyutping:	gei1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kí
Japanese Kana:	キ ki (on'yomi) つくえ tsukue (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	궤 gwe
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Surrounding) 几字頭/几子头 jīzìtóu (Bottom) 几字底 jīzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	机/つくえ tsukue 几繞/きにょう kinyō 几構/きがまえ/つくえがまえ kigamae/tsukuegamae 風構/かぜがまえ/かざがまえ kazegamae/kazagamae
Hangul:	안석 anseok
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Radical 16 or radical table (几部), meaning small table, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

几 is also the 16th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. 𠘨 is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component 几. In addition, the identical character 几 used in Simplified Chinese for 幾 jǐ used to ask "how many" for small amounts or to mean "a few, some, almost, nearly" does not have any historical connection to the "table" character.

Evolution

• 
  Chu bamboo and slip script character
• 
  Shuowen seal script character
• 
  Liushutong character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	几
+1	凡 凢 (=凡) 凣 (=凡)
+2	凤SC (=鳳 -> 鳥)
+3	凥 処JP (=處 -> 虍) 凧JP
+4	凨 (=風 -> 風) 凩JP 凪JP 凫SC (=鳧 -> 鳥)
+5	凬
+6	凭 凮 凯SC (=凱)
+7	巬
+9	凰
+10	凱 凲
+12	凳 凴 (=憑 -> 心)

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.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
• KangXi: page 133, character 16

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