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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.
覀, a variant form of 襾, 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
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 襾 西 覀Component |
+3 | 要 |
+5 | 覂 |
+6 | 覃 覄 (=覆) |
+7 | 覅 (=𧟰) |
+12 | 覆 |
+13 | 覇 (=霸 -> 雨) 覈 |
+17 | 覉 |
+19 | 覊 (=羈 -> 网) |
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.
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