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U+4EA0, 亠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EA0

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F07, ⼇
KANGXI RADICAL LID

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Although the character itself is written with a slanting dot in the Kangxi dictionary, most of its derived characters in the Ming typeface used in Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja as well as the Kangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of . This is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts, which use a slanting dot for the upper component of in its derived characters.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 8, +0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 難卜 (XY), four-corner 00000, composition (GHTK) or (J))

  1. Kangxi radical #8, .

Derived characters

See also

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 88, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 286
  • Dae Jaweon: page 184, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 279, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4EA0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

A couvercle with a handle on top. However, in some characters it is actually a false friend:

  • in , , , and it represents the roof of a tower
  • in and it represents the head and open arms of a human
  • in it represents the roof of a hut
  • in it represents the top of a traditional cloth
  • in it represents a mark over two intervowen silk threads
  • in it represents the top of a knife or chisel to mark prisoners

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. couvercle (Kangxi radical)

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Meaning unclear.
  2. A radical (なべぶた, けいさんかんむり).

Readings

  • Go-on: (zu) (du, historical)
  • Kan-on: とう ()
  • Kun: けいさん (keisan, )なべぶた (nabebuta, )

Korean

Hanja

(eum (du))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đầu

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References