Radical 208 meaning "rat" or "mouse" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

← 207 Radical 208 (U+2FCF) 209 →
(U+9F20) "rat, mouse"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shǔ
Bopomofo:ㄕㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:shu3
Cantonese Yale:syu2
Jyutping:syu2
Japanese Kana:ショ, ソ sho, so
ねずみ nezumi
Sino-Korean:서 seo
Hán-Việt:thử
Names
Japanese name(s):鼠 nezumi
Hangul:쥐 jwi
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 208

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Literature

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  • 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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