屮

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

屮
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

屮 (radical 45 屮+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 山中 (UL), four-corner 2240₇)

1. sprout
2. KangXi radical 45

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/屮
• 艸, 芔, 茻, 出, 卉, 每, 毒, 熏, 省, 壴, 舍, 奏, 妻, 离

References

• KangXi: page 304, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7826
• Dae Jaweon: page 603, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1021, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5C6E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

屮 (jyutping cit3, Yale chit3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

屮 (POJ chhe̍t, Guangdong ts'o³, ch'et⁸, ch'e⁵ [Hailu], ts'o³, ts'et⁸, ts'e⁵ [Siyan], ch'et⁸ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim ced6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

屮

Readings

• On: さ (sa)
• Kun: ひだり (hidari), ひだりて (hidarite)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

屮 (pinyin chè (che4), Wade-Giles ch'e⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屮 (triệt)