Radical 31

Radical 31 or radical enclosure (囗部) meaning "enclosure" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

囗
Radical 31 (U+2F1E)
囗 (U+56D7) "enclosure"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wéi
Bopomofo:ㄨㄟˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:wei
Wade–Giles:wei2
Cantonese Yale:wàih
Jyutping:wai4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:ûi
Japanese Kana:イ i (on'yomi)
かこ-む kako-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:위 wi
Hán-Việt:Vi
Names
Chinese name(s):國字框/国字框 guózìkuàng
大口框 dàkǒukuàng
Japanese name(s):国構/くにがまえ kunigamae
Hangul:에운담 eundam
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 118 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

囗 is also the 38th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0囗 〇[1]
+2囙 (=因) 囚 四 囜
+3囝 回 囟 因 囡 团SC (=團) 団JP (=團)
+4囤 囥 囦 囧 囨 囩 囪 囫 囬 (=回) 园SC (=園) 囮 囯 (=國) 困 囱 囲JP (=圍) 図SC (=圖) 围SC (=圍) 囵SC (=圇) 囶 囷 囸
+5囹 固 囻 囼 国SC/JP (=國) 图SC (=圖)
+6囿 圀
+7圁 圂 圃 圄 圅 (=函) 圆SC (=圓)
+8圇 圈 圉 圊 國
+9圌 圍 圎 (=圓) 圏JP (=圈) 圐
+10圑 園 圓 圔 圕
+11圖 圗 (=圖) 團 圙
+12圚
+13圛 圜
+19圝
+23圞

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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

References

  1. The character 〇 (líng, 'zero'; xīng, 'star') is traditionally assigned to the 囗 radical, even though it does not contain any standard brush stroke.
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