Radical 14

Radical 14 or radical cover (冖部), meaning cover, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

冖
← 13 Radical 14 (U+2F0D) 15 →
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
Hán-Việt:	mịch
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

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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+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

• 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

• Unihan data for U+5196