黍
Radical 202 (U+2FC9)
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

Radical 202 or radical millet (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.

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0黍
+3黎
+5黏
+10黐

Literature

  • 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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