Radical 124 or radical () meaning "feather" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 220 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 147th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution Derived characters Variant forms Traditionally, this radical character is printed as and written as . In modern Chinese, both the standard printing form and writing form of this character have been altered to , though the more traditional printing form is still seen in some Traditional Chinese publication. In modern Japanese, the Kangxi form (old form) and the written form (new form) are encoded separately in JIS and Unihan (New : U+7FBD; Old : U+FA1E). The new form is used in jōyō kanji while the old form is used in hyōgai kanji, with the exception that in , and , the component is replaced by . Literature External links Unihan Database - U+7FBD 124 147