Radical 26 or radical seal (卩部) meaning "seal" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

It usually transforms as 㔾 when appearing at the bottom of a Chinese character.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卩 is also the 21st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 㔾 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2卫SC (=衛/衞 -> ) 卬
+3卭 卮 卯
+4印 危
+5卲 即 却SC/JP (=卻) 卵
+6卶 卷 卸 卺
+7卹 卻 卼 卽
+8
+9
+11厀 厁

In Unihan database, 㔾 is indexed radical 26 + 1 stroke (3 strokes in total), with the extra stroke unspecified. Traditionally, this character or component consists of only two strokes (𠃌乚).

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.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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