Radical 205

黽
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黽 (U+9EFD) "frog, amphibian"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mǐn
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧㄣˇ
Wade–Giles:	min3
Cantonese Yale:	man5
Jyutping:	man5
Japanese Kana:	ベン, ボー ben, bō つとめる tsutomeru
Sino-Korean:	맹 maeng
Hán-Việt:	mãnh
Names
Japanese name(s):	黽足 benashi[1] (べんあし)
Hangul:	맹꽁이 maengkkongi
Stroke order animation

Radical 205 meaning "frog" or "amphibian" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

• 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.

• Unihan Database - U+9EFD

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