Radical 119
Radical 119 or radical rice meaning "rice" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 318 characters 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.
Variant forms
This radical character has a different form in Taiwan Traditional Chinese to forms in the 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 replaced for a dot, whether used independently or as a component.
| Traditional | Taiwan |
| 米 粒 | 米 粒 |