Radical 13

冂
Radical 13 (U+2F0C)
冂 (U+5182) "wide"
Pinyin:	jiōng
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄩㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	jiong
Wade–Giles:	chiung1
Cantonese Yale:	gwing2
Jyutping:	gwing1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	keng
Hiragana:	まきがまえ makigamae
Kanji:	冏構 makigamae
Hangul:	멀 meol
Sino-Korean:	경 gyeong
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Radical 13, meaning down box or wide, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 50 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 13

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Literature

• 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. 
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

External links

• Unihan data for U+5182

See also

• KangXi: page 128, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1506
• Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 96, character 13

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