Radical 20
The radical 20 with the meaning " embrace " is one of the traditional 23 radicals of Chinese characters that are made with two strokes.
With 16 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it is relatively rare in dictionaries.
In the oldest form of this radical to recognize a flexed forward people, which includes something. There is now no separate character and occurs only in combination with other characters. The character is similar to Katakanaク" ku " and the Zhuyinzeichen ㄅ [ B].
The character勹has three functions:
Moreover勹According carrier in the character包( = wrap ) and跑( = run ).
Character connections that are ruled by the radical 20
In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 20 encoded code point number 12,051 (U 2 F13).