Radical 116

Radical 116 meaning " Cave " is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by five strokes.

With 48 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are quite a lot of characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The sign looks穴宂similar, the radical 40 with two more strokes.

The radical " cave " will only in the long list of traditional character - radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 116th position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries may find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, there is, for example, at 128th place.

The seal script form of this character can be a space ( ground input ) recognize the representation of two windows or openings is added. As a sign component穴is often described as ( treasure cover).

The radical acts with a grass head (艹) provided in the word ( cover pad for cereals), only once as a sound, otherwise always as bearers of meaning. Then it makes its mark in the field of meaning cave, as in窍( = opening)窟窿( = hole ) ,窝( = nest ) ,窥( = secretly look ) ,帘( = curtain at the window ,窖( in地窖= Basement. ) the sign突(tu = storm ahead, suddenly ) is composed of the cave (穴) and the dog (犬): a shooting forth from the cave dog).

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 116

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 116 is coded under the code point number 12,147 (U 2 F73 ).

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