Radical 117

Radical 117 or radical stand (立部) meaning "stand" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 101 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

立 is also the 116th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Sinogram
As an independent sinogram it is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji and means to stand up