Radical 20

勹
Radical 20 (U+2F13)
勹 (U+52F9) "wrap"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:bāo
Bopomofo:ㄅㄠ
Wade–Giles:pao1
Cantonese Yale:baau1
Jyutping:baau1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:pau
Japanese Kana:ホウ hō (on'yomi)
つつ-む tsutsu-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:포 po
Hán-Việt:bao
Names
Chinese name(s):包字頭/包字头 bāozìtóu
Japanese name(s):包構/つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae
Hangul:쌀 ssal
Stroke order animation

Radical 20 or radical wrap (勹部) meaning "wrap" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

勹 is also the 13th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 勹
+1 勺
+2 勻 勼 勽 勾 勿 匀SC/variant (=勻) 匁JP 匂JP
+3 匃 匄 包 匆 匇
+4 匈
+5 匉
+6 匊 匋 匌
+7 匍
+8 匎
+9 匏 匐
+10 匑 匒
+11 匓
+14 匔

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.
  • 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.