Radical 119 Explained

Uni:7C73
Meaning:rice
Pny:
Bopo:ㄇㄧˇ
Gr:mii
Wade:mi3
Jyutping:mai5
Yale:máih
Cn:(Left) 米字旁 mǐzìpáng
(Bottom) 米字底 mǐzìdǐ
Onyomi:ベイ bei / マイ mai
Kunyomi:こめ kome
Jp:米/こめ kome
(Left) 米偏/こめへん komehen
Hang:쌀 ssal
Hanja:미 mi

Radical 119 or radical rice meaning "rice" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 318 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 144th 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 SC (=糴) (= -> )
+3 SC (=) SC (=) SC (=)
+4 (= -> / -> ) (=糠/粳) JP (=粹)
+5 (= -> / -> ) JP (= -> ) SC (=糶) SC (=糲)
+6 SC/JP (=粵) (= -> ) SC (=糞) (= -> )
+7 SC (=糧)
+8 (= -> ) SC (=糝)
+9 (=糝) SC (=) (=粽)
+10
+11 (=糖)
+12 (= -> )
+13 (=粽)
+14
+15
+16
+17 (=糱)
+19
+21

Variant forms

This radical character has a different form in Taiwan Traditional Chinese to in other writing systems.

Traditionally, the two diagonal strokes under the horizontal start from the central junction, and the last stroke is a right-falling press when the character appears independently or a dot when used as a component. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters, however, all four diagonal strokes are detached from other strokes, and the last stroke is a dot, whether used independently or as a component.

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 second 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.