Radical 14
Appearance
冖 | ||
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冖 (U 5196) "cover" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | mì | |
Bopomofo: | ㄇ一ˋ | |
Wade–Giles: | mi4 | |
Cantonese Yale: | mihk | |
Jyutping: | mik6 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | be̍k | |
Japanese Kana: | ベキ beki (on'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 멱 myeok | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 禿寶蓋/秃宝盖 tūbǎogài | |
Japanese name(s): | ワ冠/ワかんむり wakanmuri 平冠/ひらかんむり hirakanmuri 冖冠/べきかんむり bekikanmuri | |
Hangul: | 덮을 deopeul | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 14 or radical cover (冖部), meaning cover, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 30 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
冖 is also the 19th 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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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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0 | 冖 |
2 | 冗 冘 |
3 | 写SC/写JP (=寫 -> 宀) 冚 |
4 | 农SC (=農 -> 辰) |
5 | 军SC (=軍 -> 車) 冝 (=宜 -> 宀) |
6 | 冞 |
7 | 冟 (=適 -> 辵) 冠 |
8 | 冡 冢 冣 冤 冥 冦 (=寇 -> 宀) 冧 |
9 | 冨 (=富 -> 宀) |
12 | 冩 (=寫 -> 宀) |
14 | 冪 |
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 130, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1565
- Dae Jaweon: page 292, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 302, character 14
External links
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