Radical 23

匸
22 ⼕ ◄	23	► ⼗ 24
Pinyin :	xǐ (= box)
Zhuyin :	ㄒ ㄧ ˇ
Hiragana :	か く し が ま え kakushigamae
Kanji :	隠 構, 匸 構 kakushigamae
Hangul :	감출
Sinocorean :	혜
Codepoint :	U + 5338
Stroke sequence :

The Radical 23 meaning "round box " is one of the 23 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes.

With 8 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare in the lexicon. In the Kangxi dictionary , too, there are only 17 of a total of over 40,000 characters that can be found under this radical.

In its current form, the radical only exists in compounds. Some scholars believe it is a box without a front, but with a lid, from which the meaning "hide" arose. Other scholars, on the other hand, see it as a rolled-up cloth to be "wrapped around".

Examples of compositions with this radical are:

character	Explanation
區	District (abbreviation: 区) "many people (品) are in 匸"
匽	hide, hide, suppress

Character combinations ruled by radical 23

Strokes	character
+ 00	匸
+ 02	匹区
+ 06	匼
+ 07	匽
+ 09	匾 匿 區

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 23 is coded under the code point number 12.054 (U + 2F16).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 89 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 23  - Graphic representations of Radikal 23