Radical 116

穴
115 ⽲ ◄	116	► ⽴ 117
Pinyin :	xué (= cave)
Zhuyin :	ㄒ ㄩ ㄝ ˊ
Hiragana :	あ な ana
Kanji :	穴 冠 anakanmuri
Hangul :	구멍
Sinocorean :	혈
Codepoint :	U + 7A74
Stroke sequence :

Radical 116 , meaning “ cave ”, is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with five strokes.

With 48 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The symbol 穴 looks similar to radical 40 with two additional dashes.

The radical "cave" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 116. position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 128th position.

The seal form of this character shows a space (earth entrance) to which the representation of two windows or openings is added. As a character component, 穴 is often described as (treasure lid).

The radical functions with a grass head (艹) in the word (cover mat for grain), only once as a sound, otherwise always as a bearer of meaning. Then it places its characters in the meaning field cave, as in 窍 (= opening), 窟窿 (= hole), 窝 (= nest), 窥 (= look secretly), 帘 (= curtain on the window, 窖 (in 地窖 = basement The sign 突 (tu = rush forward, suddenly) is composed of the cave (穴) and the dog (犬): a dog shooting out of the cave).

Character combinations governed by radical 116

cave

Strokes	character
+ 00	穴
+ 01	穵
+ 02	究 穷
+ 03	穸 穹 空 穻 突
+ 04	穼 穽 穾 穿 窀 窂 窃
+ 05	窄 窅 窆 窇 窈 窉 窊 窋 窌 窍 窎
+ 06	窏 窐 窑 窒 窓 窔 窕
+ 07	窖 窗 窘 窙 窚 窛 窜 窝
+ 08	窞 窟 窠 窡 窢 窣 窤 窥 窦 窧
+ 09	窨 窩 窪 窫 窬 窭
+10	窮 窯 窰 窱 窲 窳 窴 竃
+11	窵 窶 窷 窸 窹 窺 窻 窼 窽
+12	窾 窿 竀 竁 竂 邃
+13	竄 竅
+14	竆
+15	竇
+16	竈 竉
+17	竊

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 116 is coded under the code point number 12.147 (U + 2F73).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 105 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 290 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 116  - Graphic representations of Radikal 116

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 116 on page 89