Radical 202 or radical millet (黍部) meaning "millet" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.
| 黍 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 黍 (U+9ECD) "millet" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shǔ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄨˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | shu3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | syu2 | |
| Jyutping: | syu2 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ショ sho (on'yomi) きび kibi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 서 seo | |
| Hán-Việt: | thử | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 黍/きび kibi | |
| Hangul: | 기장 gijang | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
黍 is also the 197th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 黍 |
| +3 | 黎 |
| +5 | 黏 |
| +10 | 黐 |
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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