Radical 45

Radical 45 or radical sprout (屮部) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

屮 is also the 55th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.