2indexing radical for characters built on a bent-leg figure
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usage
尢 is the proto-form of 尪 (a person with a bent or crippled leg). As a radical it heads characters like 尤, 尬, 就, 尴 — the last two of which carry the modern sense of 'awkward' (尴尬).
history
Xinhua records two readings: yóu (used as a surname and as the historical proto-form of 尤) and wāng (the original sense of a bent-leg figure). The wāng reading matches the radical's traditional name in Kangxi indexing.
Radical
LameKangxi #43
The 尢 radical, a pictograph of a person with a bent leg and the proto-form of 尪. A small Kangxi class indexing characters built on the bent-leg figure: 尤, 尬, 就, 尴. Not a free word in everyday modern Chinese; the modern surname use is written 尤.
