米
← 118 Radical 119 (U+2F76) 120 →
米 (U+7C73) "rice"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mii
Wade–Giles:	mi3
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 or 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

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  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.^[1] It is a second grade kanji^[1]