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勹
Radical 20 (U+2F13)
勹 (U+52F9) "wrap"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	bāo
Bopomofo:	ㄅㄠ
Wade–Giles:	pao1
Cantonese Yale:	baau1
Jyutping:	baau1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	pau
Japanese Kana:	ホウ hō (on'yomi) つつ-む tsutsu-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	포 po
Hán-Việt:	bao
Names
Chinese name(s):	包字頭/包字头 bāozìtóu
Japanese name(s):	包構/つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae
Hangul:	쌀 ssal
Stroke order animation

Radical 20 or radical wrap (勹部) meaning "wrap" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

勹 is also the 13th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

勹

Compare 人, 匕 and 尸.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  bronze script character
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  Small seal script character

包 (to wrap up)

fetus (巳) in the womb (勹), or a swaddled baby.

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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

勿

Original character of 刎 ("to cut"); loangraph for "do not".

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

匆

Traditional: 怱, variant of 悤. Heart (心) with a dot.

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
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  Qin slip script
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	勹
+1	勺
+2	勻 勼 勽 勾 勿 匀SC/variant (=勻) 匁JP 匂JP
+3	匃 匄 包 匆 匇
+4	匈
+5	匉
+6	匊 匋 匌
+7	匍
+8	匎
+9	匏 匐
+10	匑 匒
+11	匓
+14	匔

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.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+52F9