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{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|45|uni=5C6E
|meaning=sprout
|pny= chè
|bopo= ㄔㄜˋ
|wade= ch'e4
|jyutping= cit3
|yale= chit
|poj= tia̍t
|onyomi= テツ tetsu
|kunyomi= ひだり hidari
|jp= 屮/てつ tetsu<br />芽生え/めばえ mebae
|hang= 풀, 싹날 pul, ssak nal
|hanja= 철 cheol
}}
'''Radical 45''' or '''radical [[Shoot (botany)|sprout]]''' ({{Lang|zh-Hant|屮部}}) is one of the 31 [[Kangxi radical]]s (214 radicals total) composed of three [[Stroke (CJK character)|strokes]].
In the ''[[Kangxi Dictionary]]'', there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this [[Radical (Chinese characters)|radical]].
{{Lang|zh-Hans|屮}} is also the 55th indexing component in the ''[[Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components]]'' predominantly adopted by [[Simplified Chinese characters|Simplified Chinese]] dictionaries published in [[mainland China]].
==Evolution==
<gallery>
File:屮-bronze.svg|[[Chinese bronze inscriptions|Bronze script]] character
File:屮-bigseal.svg|[[Large seal script]] character
File:屮-seal.svg|[[Small seal script]] character
</gallery>
==Derived characters==
{| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters
|----
| +0 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屮}}
|----
| +1 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屯}}
|----
| +3 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屰}}
|}
== Literature ==
*{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= [[Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.)|Abbeville Press]] |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
*{{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= [[O'Reilly Media]] |location= [[Sebastopol, California|Sebastopol, Calif.]] |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Radical 045}}
{{wiktionary|屮}}
*[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5C6E Unihan Database - U+5C6E]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}
[[Category:Kangxi radicals|045]]
[[Category:Simplified Chinese radicals|055]]