Radical 202

For the five stroke grain radical 禾, see Radical 115. For the eleven/seven stroke wheat radical 麥/麦, see Radical 199.

Radical 202 or radical millet (黍部) meaning "millet" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

黍
← 201 Radical 202 (U+2FC9) 203 →
黍 (U+9ECD) "millet"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	shu3
Cantonese Yale:	syu2
Jyutping:	syu2
Japanese Kana:	ショ sho (on'yomi) きび kibi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	서 seo
Hán-Việt:	thử
Names
Japanese name(s):	黍/きび kibi
Hangul:	기장 gijang
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

黍 is also the 197th 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	黍
+3	黎
+5	黏
+10	黐

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/黍

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+9ECD