Radical 13
Chinese character radical
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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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Radical 13 (U+2F0C)
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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 |
| Hán-Việt: | quynh |
| 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 |
| Stroke order animation | |
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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
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Literature
- 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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