Radical 108

皿
皿
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

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

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

^ ^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.

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.

External links

Unihan Database - U+76BF

[:0-1] "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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