Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Radical 24 meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. " " is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now ), 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. The following is a list of all 214 Kangxi radicals, used originally in the 1615 Zihui and adopted by the 1716 Kangxi dictionary, in order of the number of strokes along with some examples of characters containing them. This list has become such a common standard that sometimes radicals are referred to by number alone.