Radical 108

皿
← 107 Radical 108 (U+2F6B) 109 →
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

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.

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