Radical 146

襾 西 覀
145 ⾐ ◄	146	► ⾒ 147
Pinyin :	yà or xī
Zhuyin :	ㄧ ㄚ ˋ or ㄒ ㄧ
Hiragana :	に し nishi
Kanji :	西 nishi (= west)
Hangul :	덮을
Sinocorean :	아
Codepoint :	U + 897E 897F 8980
Stroke sequence :

West was right

Radical 146 , meaning “cover” and “ west ”, is one of the 29 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of six strokes.

With 9 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , the radical appears very rarely in the lexicon.

There were 24 cardinal points on the representations in ancient China; South was on top , and west, marked on the picture with 酉 yǒu (radical No. 164; 10th of the 12 branches of the earth; 10th animal in the Chinese zodiac (rooster)), right .

Character combinations are only created with the variant 覀, which is always on top and is written with six lines.

Character combinations ruled by radical 146

Strokes	character
+ 00	襾 西 覀
+ 03	要
+ 05	覂
+ 06	覃 覄
+ 07	覅
+12	覆
+13	覇 覈
+17	覉
+19	覊

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 146 is coded under the code point number 12.177 (U + 2F91).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 130 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 146  - Graphic representations of Radikal 146

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 146 on page 113