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.

← 145 Radical 146 (U+2F91) 147 →
(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):西字頭/西字头 xīzìtóu
Japanese name(s):西/にし nishi
覆冠/おおいかんむり ooikanmuri
Hangul:덮을 deopeul
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the component form 覀

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 listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 西 Component
+3
+5
+6 (=覆)
+7 (=𧟰)
+12
+13 (= -> )
+17
+19 (= -> )

Literature

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  • 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.

See also

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