Radical 202

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{for multi|the five stroke grain radical 禾|Radical 115|the eleven/seven stroke wheat radical 麥/麦|Radical 199}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|202|uni=9ECD

|meaning= millet

|pny= shǔ

|bopo= ㄕㄨˇ

|wade= shu3

|jyutping= syu2

|yale= syu2

|cn=

|onyomi= ショ sho

|kunyomi= きび kibi

|jp= 黍/きび kibi

|hang= 기장 gijang

|hanja= 서 seo

|hanviet= thử

}}

Radical 202 or radical millet ({{Lang|zh-Hant|黍部}}) meaning "millet" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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

File:黍-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:黍-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:黍-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:黍-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黍}}
+3style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黎}}
+5style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黏}}
+10style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黐}}

{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/黍}}

Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}