Radical 13
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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.
Quick Facts 冂, Pronunciations ...
冂 | ||||
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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 | |||
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 | |||
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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.