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Radical 20

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勹
← 19
Radical 20 (U+2F13)
21 →
勹 (U+52F9) "wrap"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:bāo
Bopomofo:ㄅㄠ
Wade–Giles:pao1
Cantonese Yale:baau1
Jyutping:baau1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:pau
Japanese Kana:ホウ hō (on'yomi)
つつ-む tsutsu-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:포 po
Hán-Việt:bao
Names
Chinese name(s):包字頭/包字头 bāozìtóu
Japanese name(s):包構/つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae
Hangul:쌀 ssal
Stroke order animation

Radical 20 or radical wrap (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.

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

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勹

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Compare 人, 匕 and 尸.

包 (to wrap up)

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fetus (巳) in the womb (勹), or a swaddled baby.

勿

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Original character of 刎 ("to cut"); loangraph for "do not".

匆

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Traditional: 怱, variant of 悤. Heart (心) with a dot.

Derived characters

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StrokesCharacters
+0勹
+1勺
+2勻 勼 勽 勾 勿 匀SC/variant (=勻) 匁JP 匂JP
+3匃 匄 包 匆 匇
+4匈
+5匉
+6匊 匋 匌
+7匍
+8匎
+9匏 匐
+10匑 匒
+11匓
+14匔

Literature

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  • 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). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (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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