Radical 22
匚 | ||
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匚 (U+531A) "box" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | fāng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄈㄤ | |
Wade–Giles: | fang1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | fong1 | |
Jyutping: | fong1 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | hong | |
Japanese Kana: | ホウ hō (on'yomi) はこ hako (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 방 bang | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 左方框 zuǒfāngkuàng | |
Japanese name(s): | 匚構/はこがまえ hakogamae | |
Hangul: | 상자 sanja | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 22 or radical right open box (匚部) meaning "
In the
In
In mainland China, the two radicals were unified as right open box 匚, which then became the 8th indexing component in Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries, and the nuance between the two radicals no longer exists; No associated indexing component is left after the merger. This merger also applies to Traditional Chinese characters in China's GB character set.
Radical 22 and radical 23 were also unified in
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
An archaic version of this radical, directly regularized from the bronzeware and seal scripts forms, occasionally appears in regular script (kaishu) or printed text as 𠥓 (12 strokes, 匚 + 10 strokes, e.g., 𠥧, an archaic version of 杯) and is used for the transcription of ancient inscriptions.
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 匚 |
+3 | 匛 匜 匝 匞 |
+4 | 匟 匠 匡 匢 |
+5 | 匣 匤 匥 医SC/JP (=醫 -> 酉) |
+7 | 匦SC (=匭) 匧 |
+8 | 匨 匩 匪 匫 |
+9 | 匬 匭 匮SC (=匱) |
+10 | 𠥓 |
+11 | 匯 匰 |
+12 | 匱 匲 |
+13 | 匳 |
+14 | 匴 |
+15 | 匵 |
+17 | 匶 |
+18 | 匷 |
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: 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.). ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.