Radical 24
      
Radical 24 meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "十" is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
Characters with Radical 24
| strokes | characters | 
|---|
| 0 | 十 | 
| 1 stroke | 卂, 千, 卄 | 
| 2 strokes | 卅, 卆, 升, 午 | 
| 3 strokes | 卉, 半 | 
| 4 strokes | 卋, 卌, 卍, 华, 协, 卐, 毕 | 
| 5 strokes |  | 
| 6 strokes | 丧, 卑, 卒, 卓, 協, 单, 卖 | 
| 7 strokes | 南 | 
| 8 strokes |  | 
| 9 strokes | 卙 | 
| 10 strokes | 博 | 
| 19 strokes | 卛, 颦 | 
 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
External links
See also
-  KangXi: page 155, character 17
-  Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
-  Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
-  Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9