Radical 146

Chinese character radical
← 145 Radical 146 (U+2F91) 147 →
(U+897E) "cover, west"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
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.

, a variant form of , 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
+5
+6 覃 覄 (=覆)
+7 覅 (=𧟰)
+12
+13 覇 (=霸 -> ) 覈
+17
+19 覊 (=羈 -> )

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 146.
  • Unihan Database - U+897E
  • v
  • t
  • e
Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
1 stroke
2 strokes
3 strokes
4 strokes
5 strokes
6 strokes
7 strokes
8 strokes
9 strokes
10 strokes
11 strokes
12 strokes
13 strokes
14 strokes
15 strokes
16 strokes
17 strokes
See also: Kangxi radicals
  • v
  • t
  • e
Simplified Chinese characters radicals (indexing components)
1 stroke
2 strokes
3 strokes
4 strokes
5 strokes
6 strokes
7 strokes
8 strokes
9 strokes
10 strokes
11 strokes
12 strokes
13 strokes
14 strokes
17 strokes
GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.