Radical 20

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|20|uni=52F9

|meaning=wrap

|pny= bāo

|bopo= ㄅㄠ

|wade= pao1

|jyutping= baau1

|yale= baau1

|poj= pau

|cn= 包字頭/包字头 bāozìtóu

|onyomi= ホウ hō

|kunyomi= つつ-む tsutsu-mu

|kanji= 包構/つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae

|hang= 쌀 ssal

|hanja= 포 po

|hanviet= bao

}}

Radical 20 or radical wrap ({{Lang|zh-Hant|勹部}}) meaning "wrap" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|勹}} is also the 13th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:勹-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:勹-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:勹-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|勹}}
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| +1

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|勺}}
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|勻}} {{Linktext|勼}} {{Linktext|勽}} {{Linktext|勾}} {{Linktext|勿}} {{Linktext|匀}}SC/variant (={{Linktext|勻}}) {{Linktext|匁}}JP {{Linktext|匂}}JP
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匃}} {{Linktext|匄}} {{Linktext|包}} {{Linktext|匆}} {{Linktext|匇}}
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匈}}
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匉}}
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匊}} {{Linktext|匋}} {{Linktext|匌}}
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匍}}
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匎}}
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匏}} {{Linktext|匐}}
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匑}} {{Linktext|匒}}
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| +11

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匓}}
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| +14

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|匔}}

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 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}