Radical 205

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← 204 Radical 205 (U+2FCC) 206 →
(U+9EFD) "frog, amphibian"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:mǐn
Bopomofo:ㄇㄧㄣˇ
Wade–Giles:min3
Cantonese Yale:man5
Jyutping:man5
Japanese Kana:ベン, ボー ben, bō
つとめる tsutomeru
Sino-Korean:맹 maeng
Hán-Việt:mãnh
Names
Japanese name(s):黽足 benashi[1]
(べんあし)
Hangul:맹꽁이 maengkkongi
Stroke order animation

Radical 205 meaning "frog" or "amphibian" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 205[edit]

strokes character
without additional strokes
4 additional strokes 黿
5 additional strokes
6 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
10 additional strokes
11 additional strokes
12 additional strokes

Literature[edit]

  • 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.

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Kanji Box - Radicals list with names". Retrieved 2011-04-08.