Radical 22

Radical 22 meaning "box" is 1 of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

Radical 22 (U+2F15)
(U+531A) "box"
Pinyin:fāng
Bopomofo:ㄈㄤ
Wade–Giles:fang1
Cantonese Yale:fong1
Jyutping:fong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:hong
Kana:ほう, はこ hō, hako
Kanji:匚構 hakogamae
Hangul:상자 sanja
Sino-Korean:방 bang
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. 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.

Characters with Radical 22

strokescharacter
without additional strokes
3 additional strokes匛 匜 匝 匞
4 additional strokes匟 匠 匡 匢
5 additional strokes匣 匤 匥 医
7 additional strokes匦 匧
8 additional strokes匨 匩 匪 匫
9 additional strokes匬 匭 匮
10 additional strokes 𠥓
11 additional strokes匯 匰
12 additional strokes匱 匲
13 additional strokes
14 additional strokes
15 additional strokes
17 additional strokes
18 additional strokes

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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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