Radical 14
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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
- Oracle bone script character
- Bronze script character
- Small seal script character
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: , character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1565
- Dae Jaweon: page 292, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 302, character 14