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米
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米 (U+7C73) "rice"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mii
Wade–Giles:	mi
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/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※

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."

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 second grade kanji

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.

External links※

• Unihan Database - U+7C73