Radical 208

Chinese character radical
鼠
← 207 Radical 208 (U+2FCF) 209 →
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
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Radical 208 meaning "rat" or "mouse" 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.

Characters with Radical 208

strokes character
without additional strokes 鼠 鼡
4 additional strokes 鼢 鼣 鼤
5 additional strokes 鼥 鼦 鼧 鼨 鼩 鼪 鼫 鼬
6 additional strokes 鼭
7 additional strokes 鼮 鼯 鼰
8 additional strokes 鼱
9 additional strokes 鼲 鼳 鼴 鼵
10 additional strokes 鼶 鼷 鼸 鼹
15 additional strokes 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.
  • Unihan Database - U+9F20
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See also: Kangxi radicals