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// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Radical 13 say? It's a root of all problems.

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冂
← 12
Radical 13 (U+2F0C)
14 →
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

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

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Derived characters

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StrokesCharacters
+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

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  • 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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