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| 鼠 | |
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Radical 208 (U+2FCF)
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| 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" (鼠部) 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.
Evolution
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Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Characters with Radical 208
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| +0 | 鼠 鼡 |
| +4 | 鼢 鼣 鼤 |
| +5 | 鼥 鼦 鼧 鼨 鼩 鼪 鼫 鼬 |
| +6 | 鼭 |
| +7 | 鼮 鼯 鼰 |
| +8 | 鼱 |
| +9 | 鼲 鼳 鼴 鼵 |
| +10 | 鼶 鼷 鼸 鼹 |
| +15 | 鼺 |
Literature
[edit source]- 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.
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