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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+2盀 盁
+3
+4盃 盄 盅 盆 盇 (=盍) 盈
+5盉 益 盋 盌 盍 盎 盏SC (=盞) 盐SC (=鹽 -> ) 监SC (=監)
+6盒 盓 盔 盕 盖 盗SC/JP (=盜) 盘SC (=盤) 盙 盚 盛
+7
+8盝 盞 盟
+9盠 盡 盢 監
+10
+11盥 盦 盧
+12盨 盩 盪
+13盫 盬
+15
+16

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. It is a third grade kanji.

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). (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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