Radical 14

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
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

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

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

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
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