Radical 13
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
|meaning= wide |pny= jiōng |bopo= ㄐㄩㄥ |gr= jiong |wade= chiung1 |jyutping= gwing1 |yale= gwing2 |poj= keng |cn=同字框 tóngzìkuàng |onyomi= ケイ kē |jp= 冏構/けいがまえ kēgamae 牧構/まきがまえ makigamae 同構/どうがまえ dōgamae 円構/えんがまえ engamae |hang= 멀 meol |hanja= 경 gyeong |hanviet= quynh
Radical 13 or radical down box (冂部), meaning upside-down box or wide, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
冂 is also the 10th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:冂-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:冂-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:冂-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 冂 |
| +2 | 冃 冄 (=冉) 内SC/JP (=內 - 入) 円JP (=圓 - 囗) 冇 冈 (SC form of 岡 - 山 / ancient variant of 网 - 网) |
| +3 | 冉 冊TC/JP/KO variant 冋 册SC variant (=冊) 囘 (=回 - 囗) |
| +4 | 再 冎 |
| +5 | 冏 |
| +6 | 冐 |
| +7 | 冑 冒 |
| +8 | 冓 冔 |
| +9 | 冕 |
| :: |
Literature
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
- KangXi: page 128, character 30
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1506
- Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 96, character 13
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