屮
← 44 Radical 45 (U+2F2C) 46 →
屮 (U+5C6E) "sprout"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chè
Bopomofo:	ㄔㄜˋ
Wade–Giles:	ch'e4
Cantonese Yale:	chit
Jyutping:	cit3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	tia̍t
Japanese Kana:	テツ tetsu (on'yomi) ひだり hidari (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	철 cheol
Names
Japanese name(s):	屮/てつ tetsu 芽生え/めばえ mebae
Hangul:	풀, 싹날 pul, ssak nal
Stroke order animation

Radical 45 or radical sprout (屮部) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

屮 is also the 55th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

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.