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.
| 冂 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 冂 (U+5182) "wide" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | jiōng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄐㄩㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | jiong | |
| Wade–Giles: | chiung1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gwing2 | |
| Jyutping: | gwing1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | keng | |
| Japanese Kana: | ケイ kē (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 경 gyeong | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 同字框 tóngzìkuàng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 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 | |
| Hangul: | 멀 meol | |
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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
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| 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
edit- 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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
- 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
External links
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