Radical 20
| 勹 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 
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| 勹 (U+52F9) "wrap" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | bāo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄅㄠ | |
| Wade–Giles: | pao1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | baau1 | |
| Jyutping: | baau1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pau | |
| Japanese Kana: | ホウ hō (on'yomi) つつ-む tsutsu-mu (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 포 po | |
| Hán-Việt: | bao | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 包字頭/包字头 bāozìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 包構/つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae | |
| Hangul: | 쌀 ssal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 20 or radical wrap (勹部) meaning "wrap" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
勹 is also the 13th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
- 
			 Oracle bone script character Oracle bone script character
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			 Bronze script character Bronze script character
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			 Small seal script character Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters | 
|---|---|
| +0 | 勹 | 
| +1 | 勺 | 
| +2 | 勻 勼 勽 勾 勿 匀SC/variant (=勻) 匁JP 匂JP | 
| +3 | 匃 匄 包 匆 匇 | 
| +4 | 匈 | 
| +5 | 匉 | 
| +6 | 匊 匋 匌 | 
| +7 | 匍 | 
| +8 | 匎 | 
| +9 | 匏 匐 | 
| +10 | 匑 匒 | 
| +11 | 匓 | 
| +14 | 匔 | 
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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