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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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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
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
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