Radical 205

黽 黾
204 ⿋ ◄	205	► ⿍ 206
Pinyin :	mǐn (= frog)
Zhuyin :	ㄇ ㄧ ㄣ ˇ
Hiragana :	べん ben
Kanji :	黽 ben
Hangul :	맹꽁이
Sinocorean :	맹
Codepoint :	U + 9EFD 9EFE
Stroke sequence :

Radical 205 , meaning “ frog , amphibian ”, is one of four traditional radicals in Chinese writing with thirteen lines.

With 8 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare in the lexicon.

A spelling variant is 黾.

Character combinations ruled by radical 205

frog

Strokes	character
+ 00	黽 黾
+ 04	黿
+ 05	鼀 鼁 鼂
+ 06	鼃 鼄
+ 08	鼅
+10	鼆
+11	鼇
+12	鼈 鼉 鼊

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 205 is coded under the code point number 12.236 (U + 2FCC).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 162 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 205  - Graphic representations of Radikal 205

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 205 on pages 141 and 148