Radical 31 or radical enclosure (囗部) meaning 'enclosure' is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 囗 | ||
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| 囗 (U+56D7) "enclosure" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | wéi | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄨㄟˊ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | wei | |
| Wade–Giles: | wei2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | wàih | |
| Jyutping: | wai4 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | ûi | |
| Japanese Kana: | イ i (on'yomi) かこ-む kako-mu (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 위 wi | |
| Hán-Việt: | Vi | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 國字框/国字框 guózìkuàng 大口框 dàkǒukuàng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 国構/くにがまえ kunigamae | |
| Hangul: | 에운담 eundam | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 118 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
囗 is also the 38th 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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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 囗 〇[1] |
| +2 | 囙 (=因) 囚 四 囜 |
| +3 | 囝 回 囟 因 囡 团SC (=團) 団JP (=團) |
| +4 | 囤 囥 囦 囧 囨 囩 囪 囫 囬 (=回) 园SC (=園) 囮 囯 (=國) 困 囱 囲JP (=圍) 図SC (=圖) 围SC (=圍) 囵SC (=圇) 囶 囷 囸 |
| +5 | 囹 固 囻 囼 国SC/JP (=國) 图SC (=圖) |
| +6 | 囿 圀 |
| +7 | 圁 圂 圃 圄 圅 (=函) 圆SC (=圓) |
| +8 | 圇 圈 圉 圊 國 |
| +9 | 圌 圍 圎 (=圓) 圏JP (=圈) 圐 |
| +10 | 圑 園 圓 圔 圕 |
| +11 | 圖 圗 (=圖) 團 圙 |
| +12 | 圚 |
| +13 | 圛 圜 |
| +19 | 圝 |
| +23 | 圞 |
Literature
edit- 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.
References
edit- ^ The character 〇 (líng, 'zero'; xīng, 'star') is traditionally assigned to the 囗 radical, even though it does not contain any standard brush stroke.
External links
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