Radical 146

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(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):西にしあたま/西にし头 xīzìtóu
Japanese name(s):西にし/にし nishi
くつがえかんむり/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 西にし listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution[edit]

Derived characters[edit]

Strokes Characters
+0 西にし Component
+3 よう
+5
+6 (=くつがえ)
+7 (=𧟰)
+12 くつがえ
+13 (= -> あめ)
+17
+19 (= -> )

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.

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