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.

← 12 Radical 13 (U+2F0C) 14 →
(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
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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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Strokes Characters
+0
+2 (=冉) SC/JP (= -> ) JP (= -> ) (SC form of -> / ancient variant of -> )
+3 TC/JP/KO variant SC variant (=冊) (= -> )
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9

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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