Radical 26

卩
25 ⼘ ◄	26th	► ⼚ 27
Pinyin :	jié 單 耳旁 dāněrpáng
Zhuyin :	ㄐ ㄧ ㄝ ˊ
Hiragana :	ふ し づ く り
Kanji :	節 旁 fushizukuri
Hangul :	병부
Sinocorean :	절
Codepoint :	+5369
Stroke sequence :

The radical 26 meaning “ seal ” is one of the 23 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with two strokes.

With 16 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it rarely appears in the lexicon.

Originally the symbol 卩 showed the image of a person kneeling to the left. Hence its original meaning: to kneel. Later 卩 was only used as a radical. Examples of compositions with this radical are:

character	Explanation
印	The symbol for stamp and seal is made up of 爪 (= claw) and 卩 (= kneeling) and originally showed a hand pressing on a kneeling person.
危	The symbol for danger shows in the form of a seal a person on a cliff and under the edge of the cliff a second, kneeling person.
卫	In the Chinese abbreviation for 衛 (= watchman)卩neither a sense still has the sound, but is only general component.

Character combinations ruled by radical 26

Chinese seal

Strokes	character
+ 00	卩
+ 01	卪
+ 02	卫 卬
+ 03	卭 卮 卯
+ 04	印 危
+ 05	卲 即 却卵
+ 06	卶 卷 卸 卺 巻
+ 07	卹 卻 卼 卽
+ 08	卿
+ 09	卾
+11	厀 厁

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 26 is coded under the code point number 12.057 (U + 2F19).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 67 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 26  - Graphic representations of Radikal 26

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 26 on page 16