Radical 146

襾
Radical 146 (U+2F91)
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
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the component form 覀

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.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 襾 西 覀Component
+3 要
+5 覂
+6 覃 覄 (=覆)
+7 覅 (=𧟰)
+12 覆
+13 覇 (=霸 -> 雨) 覈
+17 覉
+19 覊 (=羈 -> 网)

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.

See also