Radical 17 or radical open box () is one of 23 of the 214
Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2
strokes
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is also the 20th indexing component in the ''
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In China's normative documents, "radical" is defined as any ...
'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese
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dictionaries published in
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As for the similar radicals 22
匚 and 13
冂, the name of radical 17 is purely descriptive of its shape, 下三框 "lower three-sided frame".
Evolution
File:凵-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script
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character
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File:凵-seal.svg, Small seal script character
Derived characters
The radical does not occur as a character on its own. In combination, it historically takes meanings such as "open mouth", "box", "frame", "hole" or "receptacle".
Also derived from the radical are the Simplified Chinese characters including "to hit", without any historical connection to the radical.
"deep, dark" is derived from
radical 46
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In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 636 charac ...
(山 "mountain") rather than radical 17.
Literature
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*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
* KangXi:
page 134 character 17
External links
Unihan Database - U+51F5
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
017
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