Radical 61 or radical heart (心部) meaning "heart" is one of 34 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into 忄, which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into ⺗.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
心 is also the 98th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 忄 and ⺗, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 心.
As a single radical the Chinese character means heart. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
