Radical 40

Radical 40 or radical roof (宀部) meaning "roof" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

宀
Radical 40 (U+2F27)
宀 (U+5B80) "roof"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:mián
Bopomofo:ㄇㄧㄢˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:mian
Wade–Giles:mien2
Cantonese Yale:mìhn
Jyutping:min4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:biân
Japanese Kana:ベン ben (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:면 myeon
Names
Chinese name(s):寶蓋頭/宝盖头 bǎogàitóu
Japanese name(s):ウ冠/ウかんむり ukanmuri
Hangul:집 jip
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 246 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

宀 is also the 48th 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宀
+2宁 (als SC form of 寧) 宂 (=冗 -> 冖) 它 宄
+3宅 宆 (=穹 -> 穴) 宇 守 安
+4宊 宋 完 宍 (=肉 -> 肉) 宎 宏 宐 宑 宒
+5宓 宔 宕 宖 宗 官 宙 定 宛 宜 宝SC/JP (=寶) 实SC (=實) 実JP (=實) 宠SC (=寵) 审SC (=審)
+6客 宣 室 宥 宦 宨 宩 宪SC (=憲 -> 心) 宫SC (=宮)
+7宧 宬 宭 宮 宯 宰 宱 宲 害 宴 宵 家 宷 宸 容 宺 宻 (=密) 宼 (=寇) 宽 (SC, =寬) 宾SC (=賓)
+8宿 寀 寁 寂 寃 (=冤 -> 冖) 寄 寅 密 寇 寈
+9寊 寋 富 寍 寎 寏 寐 寑 寒 寓 寔 寕 (=寧)
+10寖 寗 (=甯) 寘 (=置 -> 网) 寙 寚 寛JP (=寬) 寜 (=寧) 寝SC/JP (=寢)
+11寞 察 寠 寡 寢 寣 寤 寥 實 寧 寨
+12審 寪 寫 寬 寭 寮
+13寯 寰
+14寱 寲
+16寳 (=寶) 寴 寵
+17寶
+18寷

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.
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