黽
Radical 205 (U+2FCC)
黽 (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

strokescharacter
without additional strokes黽 黾
4 additional strokes黿
5 additional strokes鼀 鼁 鼂
6 additional strokes鼃 鼄
8 additional strokes鼅
10 additional strokes鼆
11 additional strokes鼇
12 additional strokes鼈 鼉 鼊

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.

References

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