Radical 20

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Radical 20 or radical wrap (勹部) meaning "wrap" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

← 19 Radical 20 (U+2F13) 21 →
(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
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

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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 edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2 SC/variant (=) JP JP
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9
+10
+11
+14

Literature edit

  • 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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