Radical 8

亠
7 ⼆ ◄	8th	► ⼈ 9
Pinyin :	頭 tóu (= head)
Zhuyin :	ㄊ ㄡ ˊ
Hiragana :	な べ ぶ た nabebuta
Kanji :	鍋蓋 nabebuta (= cover)
Hangul :	머리 부분 meoribubun
Sinocorean :	두 you (= head)
Codepoint :	U + 4EA0
Stroke sequence :

The radical 8 with the meaning "cover" is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes. The sign looks similar to the Hangul sign ㅗ "o" .

With 15 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is relatively rare. In the Kangxi dictionary there were 38 characters that can be found under this radical.

The radical lid only occupies the 8th position in the long - character list of traditional radicals , which consists of 214 radicals. 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 9th position.

The semicolon 亠 was not originally a radical, but was only used in the Kangxi dictionary to classify characters that are difficult to classify, such as:

character	Explanation
亢	haughty
亥	12. Earth branch

If the first two dashes of a character are 亠, they probably come from this radical, e.g. B. in 帝 (di = emperor), 就 (jiu = then) or the family name 赢 Ying. Otherwise, a symbol such as 裹 or 衰 can also come from the radical 145衣, as is explained there.

Character combinations ruled by radical 8

Pot with lid

Strokes	character
+ 00	亠
+ 01	亡
+ 02	亢 亣
+ 04	交 亥 亦 产
+ 05	亨 亩 亪
+ 06	享京
+ 07	亭 亮 亯 亰 亱 亲
+ 08	亳
+10	亴 亵
+11	亶 亷
+14	亸
+20	亹

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 8 is coded under the code point number 12.039 (U + 2F07).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 80 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 8  - Graphic representations of Radikal 8

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of radical 8 on page 5