Radical 17

凵
16 ⼏ ◄	17th	► ⼑ 18
Pinyin :	qū 下 三 框 xiàsānkuàng (= three-sided frame below)
Zhuyin :	ㄑ ㄩ
Hiragana :	う け ば こ ukebako
Kanji :	凵 繞, 受 け 箱 kannyou, ukebako (= open box)
Hangul :	입 벌릴
Sinocorean :	감
Codepoint :	U + 51F5
Stroke sequence :

The radical 17 meaning "frame hole open mouth" is one of the 23 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes.

With 6 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it rarely occurs in the lexicon.

The radical 凵 does not appear as a single character. The meaning varies from “open mouth” to “filled bowl” to “hole in the earth”. Today, however, this radical does not assign any meaning or pronunciation to the signs in which it is used, but is just a general component in the following signs:

凶 (= ominous),

出 (= go out) and

函 (= container).

The Chinese abbreviations 击 (= to strike) and 画 (= to paint) are shortened characters that actually have nothing to do with 凵 in its basic meaning. The sign 幽 (= deep and dark) belongs to radical 46 , 山 (= mountain).

Analogous to the similar radicals 22匚 and 13冂, the name for 凵 is: 下 三 框 (= three-sided frame closed at the bottom).

The radical character looks similar to the Cyrillic character Ц "ʦ" .

Character combinations ruled by radical 17

Strokes	character
+ 00	凵
+ 02	凶
+ 03	凷 凸 凹 出 击
+ 04	凼
+ 06	函
+ 07	凾
+10	凿

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 17 is coded under the code point number 12.048 (U + 2F10).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 104 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 17  - Graphic representations of Radikal 17

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 17 on page 17