Radical 149
Radical 149 or radical speech () meaning "speech" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes. In the "Kangxi Dictionary", there are 861 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. Variant forms. The first stroke of this radical character is printed differently in different languages, while in writing, the slant dot form is overwhelmingly preferred. In addition, when used as a left component, this character is simplified as in Simplified Chinese.