Radical 108
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 108 | uni |
| meaning | dish |
| pny | mǐn |
| bopo | ㄇㄧㄣˇ |
| wade | min3 |
| jyutping | ming5 |
| yale | ming5 |
| cn | 皿字底 mǐnzìdǐ |
| onyomi | ベイ bei / ミョウ myō |
| kunyomi | さら sara |
| jp | 皿/さら sara |
| hang | 그릇 geureut |
| hanja | 명 myeong |
| :: |
|108|uni=76BF |meaning= dish |pny= mǐn |bopo= ㄇㄧㄣˇ |wade= min3 |jyutping= ming5 |yale= ming5 |cn= 皿字底 mǐnzìdǐ |onyomi= ベイ bei / ミョウ myō |kunyomi= さら sara |jp= 皿/さら sara |hang= 그릇 geureut |hanja= 명 myeong
Radical 108 or radical dish (皿部) meaning "dish" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 129 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
皿 is also the 108th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:皿-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:皿-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:皿-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:皿-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 皿 |
| +2 | 盀 盁 |
| +3 | 盂 |
| +4 | 盃 盄 盅 盆 盇 (=盍) 盈 |
| +5 | 盉 益 盋 盌 盍 盎 盏SC (=盞) 盐SC (=鹽 - 鹵) 监SC (=監) |
| +6 | 盒 盓 盔 盕 盖 盗SC/JP (=盜) 盘SC (=盤) 盙 盚 盛 |
| +7 | 盜 |
| +8 | 盝 盞 盟 |
| +9 | 盠 盡 盢 監 |
| +10 | 盤 |
| +11 | 盥 盦 盧 |
| +12 | 盨 盩 盪 |
| +13 | 盫 盬 |
| +15 | 盭 |
| +16 | 蘯 |
| :: |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a third grade kanji.
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Literature
References
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