襾
← 145 Radical 146 (U+2F91) 147 →
襾 (U+897E) "cover, west"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yà
Bopomofo:	ㄧㄚˋ
Wade–Giles:	ya4
Cantonese Yale:	ka1, a3
Jyutping:	kaa1, aa3
Japanese Kana:	アカ aka / エケ eke (on'yomi) おおう oou (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	아 a
Names
Chinese name(s):	西字頭/西字头 xīzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	西/にし nishi 覆冠/おおいかんむり ooikanmuri
Hangul:	덮을 deopeul
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Radical 146 or radical west (襾部) meaning "cover" or "west" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

覀, a variant form of 襾, is the 126th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 西 listed as its associated indexing component.

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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.

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