Radical 22 or radical right open box () meaning "

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" is one of the 23

Kangxi radical The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

s (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. In Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, radical 22 (right open box, ), whose two strokes share the same starting point, is slightly different from

radical 23 Radical 23 or radical hiding () is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. In Traditional Chinese used in ...

(hiding enclosure, ), whose second stroke starts is a bit right to the starting point of the first stroke. In mainland China, the two radicals were unified as right open box , which then became the 8th indexing component in '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries, and the nuance between the two radicals no longer exists; No associated indexing component is left after the merger. This merger also applies to Traditional Chinese characters in China's GB character set. Radical 22 and radical 23 were also unified in

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. JIS character set (including kyūjitai). Mainstream Japanese fonts and dictionaries do not distinguish between the two radicals.Examples include ''Shin Meikai Gendai Kanwa Jiten'' published by Sanseidō. While its index lists both radicals, they both lead to the same merged radical.

Evolution

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Oracle bone script Oracle bone script () is an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest kno ...

character File:匚-bronze.svg,

Bronze script Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...

character File:匚-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:匚-seal.svg,

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character An archaic version of this radical, directly regularized from the bronzeware and seal scripts forms, occasionally appears in regular script (kaishu) or printed text as 𠥓 (12 strokes, 匚 + 10 strokes, e.g., 𠥧, an archaic version of 杯) and is used for the transcription of ancient inscriptions.

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References

External links

Unihan Database - U+531A
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