Radical 17
凵 | ||||
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凵 (U+51F5) "receptacle" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | kǎn | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄎㄢˇ | |||
Wade–Giles: | kʻan3 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | hom1 | |||
Jyutping: | ham3 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | khám | |||
Japanese Kana: | カン kan (on'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 감 gam | |||
Names | ||||
Chinese name(s): | 凶字框 xiōngzìkuàng 下三框 xiàsānkuāng | |||
Japanese name(s): | 凵繞/かんにょう kannyō 受け箱/うけばこ ukebako 下箱/したばこ shitabako 函構/かんがまえ kangamae | |||
Hangul: | 입벌릴 ip beolril | |||
Stroke order animation | ||||
Radical 17 or radical open box (凵部) is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
凵 is also the 20th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
As for the similar radicals 22 匚 and 13 冂, the name of radical 17 is purely descriptive of its shape, 下三框 "lower three-sided frame".
Evolution
- Oracle bone script character
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 凵 |
+2 | 凶 (bad, inauspicious) |
+3 | 凷 凸 凹 出 (go out, send out) 击SC (=擊 -> 手, to hit) |
+4 | 凼 |
+6 | 函SC/TC variant/函Kangxi/JP/KO variant (box) |
+7 | 凾 (=函) |
+10 | 凿SC (=鑿 -> 金) |
The radical does not occur as a character on its own. In combination, it historically takes meanings such as "open mouth", "box", "frame", "hole" or "receptacle".
Also derived from the radical are the Simplified Chinese characters including 击 "to hit", without any historical connection to the radical.
幽 "deep, dark" is derived from radical 46 (山 "mountain") rather than radical 17.
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: page 134, character 17
External links
- Unihan Database - U+51F5
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