Radical 202 or radical millet (黍部) meaning "millet" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

← 201 Radical 202 (U+2FC9) 203 →
(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

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

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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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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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