Radical 108 Explained

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 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.

is also the 108th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3
+4 (=盍)
+5 SC (=盞) SC (= -> ) SC (=監)
+6 SC/JP (=盜) SC (=盤)
+7
+8
+9
+10
+11
+12
+13
+15
+16

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.

Literature

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.