Radical 108

皿
Radical 108 (U+2F6B)
皿 (U+76BF) "dish"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:mǐn
Bopomofo:ㄇㄧㄣˇ
Wade–Giles:min3
Cantonese Yale:ming5
Jyutping:ming5
Japanese Kana:ベイ bei / ミョウ myō (on'yomi)
さら sara (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:명 myeong
Names
Chinese name(s):皿字底 mǐnzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):皿/さら sara
Hangul:그릇 geureut
Stroke order animation

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

Derived characters

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.[1] It is a third grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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