Radical 208
| 鼠 | |
|---|---|
Radical 208 (U+2FCF)
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| 鼠 (U+9F20) "rat, mouse" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | shǔ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄨˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | shu3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | syu2 |
| Jyutping: | syu2 |
| Japanese Kana: | ショ, ソ sho, so ねずみ nezumi |
| Sino-Korean: | 서 seo |
| Hán-Việt: | thử |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 鼠 nezumi |
| Hangul: | 쥐 jwi |
| Stroke order animation | |
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Radical 208 meaning "rat" or "mouse" (鼠部) is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Evolution
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Characters with Radical 208
| strokes | character |
|---|---|
| +0 | 鼠 鼡 |
| +4 | 鼢 鼣 鼤 |
| +5 | 鼥 鼦 鼧 鼨 鼩 鼪 鼫 鼬 |
| +6 | 鼭 |
| +7 | 鼮 鼯 鼰 |
| +8 | 鼱 |
| +9 | 鼲 鼳 鼴 鼵 |
| +10 | 鼶 鼷 鼸 鼹 |
| +15 | 鼺 |
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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