Radical 13
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Kangxi Radical Infobox|13|uni=5182
|meaning= wide
|pny= jiōng
|bopo= ㄐㄩㄥ
|gr= jiong
|wade= chiung1
|jyutping= gwing1
|yale= gwing2
|poj= keng
|cn=同字框 tóngzìkuàng
|onyomi= ケイ kē
|jp= 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
|hang= 멀 meol
|hanja= 경 gyeong
|hanviet= quynh
}}
Radical 13 or radical down box ({{Lang|zh-Hant|冂部}}), meaning upside-down box or wide, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|冂}} 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
File:冂-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:冂-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:冂-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冂}} |
| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冃}} {{Linktext|冄}} (=冉) {{Linktext|内}}SC/JP (={{Linktext|內}} -> 入) {{Linktext|円}}JP (={{Linktext|圓}} -> 囗) {{Linktext|冇}} {{Linktext|冈}} (SC form of {{Linktext|岡}} -> 山 / ancient variant of {{Linktext|网}} -> 网) |
| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冉}} {{Linktext|冊}}TC/JP/KO variant {{Linktext|冋}} {{Linktext|册}}SC variant (=冊) {{Linktext|囘}} (={{Linktext|回}} -> 囗) |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|再}} {{Linktext|冎}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冏}} |
| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冐}} |
| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冑}} {{Linktext|冒}} |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冓}} {{Linktext|冔}} |
| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|冕}} |
Literature
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, {{ISBN|978-7-5619-0204-2}}
- KangXi: [http://www.kangxizidian.com/kangxi/0128.gif page 128], character 30
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1506
- Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 96, character 13