Radical 208

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Radical 208 (U+2FCF)
(U+9F20) "rat, mouse"
Pinyin: shǔ
Bopomofo: ㄕㄨˇ
Wade–Giles: shu3
Jyutping: syu2
Cantonese Yale: syu2
Hiragana: ショ, ソ sho, so
ねずみ nezumi
Kanji: 鼠 nezumi
Hangul: 쥐 jwi
Sino-Korean: 서 seo

When writing Chinese characters 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
7 additional strokes 鼮 鼯 鼰
8 additional strokes
9 additional strokes 鼲 鼳 鼴 鼵
10 additional strokes 鼶 鼷 鼸 鼹
15 additional strokes

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". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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