Radical 17 or radical open box () is one of 23 of the 214
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 that are composed of 2
strokes.
is also the 20th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China.
As for the similar radicals 22
匚 and 13
冂, the name of radical 17 is purely descriptive of its shape, 下三框 "lower three-sided frame".
Evolution
File:凵-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script
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character
File:凵-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:凵-seal.svg, Small seal script
The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty.
Name ...
character
Derived characters
The radical does not occur as a character on its own. In combination, it historically takes meanings such as "open mouth", "box", "frame", "hole" or "receptacle".
Also derived from the radical are the Simplified Chinese characters including "to hit", without any historical connection to the radical.
"deep, dark" is derived from
radical 46 (山 "mountain") rather than radical 17.
Literature
*
*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
* KangXi:
page 134 character 17
External links
Unihan Database - U+51F5
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
017
Seventeen or 17 may refer to:
*17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18
* one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017
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