Radical 146 or radical west (襾部) meaning "cover" or "west" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 襾 | ||
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| 襾 (U 897E) "cover, west" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yà | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄚˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ya4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | ka1, a3 | |
| Jyutping: | kaa1, aa3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | アカ aka / エケ eke (on'yomi) おおう oou (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 아 a | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 西字頭/西字头 xīzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 西/にし nishi 覆冠/おおいかんむり ooikanmuri | |
| Hangul: | 덮을 deopeul | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
覀, a variant form of 襾, is the 126th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 西 listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
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Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
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| 0 | 襾 西 覀Component |
| 3 | 要 |
| 5 | 覂 |
| 6 | 覃 覄 (=覆) |
| 7 | 覅 (=𧟰) |
| 12 | 覆 |
| 13 | 覇 (=霸 -> 雨) 覈 |
| 17 | 覉 |
| 19 | 覊 (=羈 -> 网) |
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.
See also
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