Radical 119

米
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米 (U+7C73) "rice"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mii
Wade–Giles:	mi3
Cantonese Yale:	máih
Jyutping:	mai5
Japanese Kana:	ベイ bei / マイ mai (on'yomi) こめ kome (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	미 mi
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 米字旁 mǐzìpáng (Bottom) 米字底 mǐzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	米/こめ kome (Left) 米偏/こめへん komehen
Hangul:	쌀 ssal
Stroke order animation

Radical 119 or radical rice (米部) meaning "rice" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 318 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

米 is also the 144th 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	米
+2	籴SC (=糴) 籵 (=蹯 -> 足) 籶
+3	娄SC (=婁) 籷 籸 籹 籺 类SC (=類) 籼SC (=秈) 籽 籾 籿 粀 粁 粂
+4	粃 (=秕 -> 禾 / 紕 -> 糸) 粄 粅 粆 粇 (=糠/粳) 粈 粉 粊 粋JP (=粹) 粌 粍 粎 粏 粐 粑
+5	畨 (=翻 -> 羽 / 番 -> 田) 粒 粓 粔 粕 粖 粗 粘 粙 粚 粛JP (=肅 -> 聿) 粜SC (=糶) 粝SC (=糲) 粣
+6	粞 粟 粠 粡 粢 粤SC/JP (=粵) 粥 粦 粧 (=妝 -> 女) 粨 粩 粪SC (=糞) 粫 粬 (=麴 -> 麥) 粭
+7	粮SC (=糧) 粯 粰 粱 粲 粳 粴 粵 糀
+8	粶 粷 粸 粹 粺 (=稗 -> 禾) 粻 粼 粽 精 粿 糁SC (=糝)
+9	糂 (=糝) 糃 糄 糅 糆 糇SC (=餱) 糈 糉 (=粽) 糊 糋 糌 糍 糎
+10	糏 糐 糑 糒 糓 糔 糕 糖 糗 糘
+11	糙 糚 糛 (=糖) 糜 糝 糞 糟 糠 糡 糢 糨
+12	糣 糤 (=饊 -> 食) 糥 糦 糧
+13	糩 糪 糫 糬 糭 (=粽)
+14	糮 糯 糰
+15	糲
+16	糱 糳 糴
+17	糵 (=糱)
+19	糶
+21	糷

Variant forms

This radical character has a different form in Taiwan Traditional Chinese to in other writing systems.

Traditionally, the two diagonal strokes under the horizontal start from the central junction, and the last stroke is a right-falling press when the character appears independently or a dot when used as a component. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters, however, all four diagonal strokes are detached from other strokes, and the last stroke is a dot, whether used independently or as a component.

Traditional	Taiwan
米 粒	米 粒

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 second 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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