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Chinese character radical
← 12 Radical 13 (U+2F0C) 14 →
(U+5182) "wide"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jiōng
Bopomofo:ㄐㄩㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:jiong
Wade–Giles:chiung
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
Stroke order animation

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

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 (=冉) (= -> ) (= -> ) (SC form of -> / ancient variant of -> )
+3 (=冊) (= -> )
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9

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

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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
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See also: Kangxi radicals
Simplified Chinese characters radicals (indexing components)
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.
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