Radical 202

Radical 202 meaning " millet " is one of four traditional radicals of Chinese writing with twelve strokes.

With four combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary this radical occurs only very rarely. In the Kangxi dictionary is still 46 characters found under this radical.

The pictogram shows the top hanging down ears, below is the character for " locomotion ". It shows the maturing plant. The character is usually translated as grain, even if it refers to only the millet in the strict sense. For grain or ear there is the radical 115 "禾". Millet was several thousand years in ancient China the dominant cereal and has remained the staple food of the northern Chinese peasants today.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 202

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 202 under the code point number 12,233 (U 2 FC9 ).

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