Radical 17

The radical 17 with the meaning " frame, hole, open mouth " is one of the traditional 23 radicals of Chinese characters that are made ​​with two strokes.

With 6 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it is very rare in the lexicon.

The radical凵does not occur as a single character. The meaning varies from " open mouth " over " filled shell " to " hole in the ground ". Today, however, this radical has the characters in which it is used, neither sense nor a debate, but is only a general component in the following characters:

The simplified Chinese characters击( = beat ) and画( = paint ) are truncated characters that have nothing to do with凵in its basic meaning. The sign幽( = deep and dark ) belongs to the radical 46山( = mountain ).

Analogous to the similar radicals 22 and 13匚冂is the name for凵:下 三 框( = three-sided, closed frame below ).

The radical character looks similar to the Cyrillic characters Ц " ʦ ".

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 17

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 17 encoded code point number 12,048 (U 2 F10).

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