Radical 23

The radical 23 with the meaning " round box " is one of the traditional 23 radicals of Chinese characters that are made ​​with two strokes.

With eight combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it is very rare in the lexicon. Also in the Kangxi Dictionary, there are only 17 of a total of over 40,000 characters, which can be found under this radical.

In its current form the radical exists only in compounds. Some scholars believe it is a box with no front, but with cover, had arisen from the meaning " hide". Other scholars have seen in a rolled material for " wrapping ".

Examples of compositions with this radical are:

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 23

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 23 under the codepoint number 12,054 (U 2 F16).

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