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" is one of the 23

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s (214 radicals total) composed of two

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. In the ''

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'', there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. In

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used in

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and

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, radical 22 (right open box, ), whose two strokes share the same starting point, is slightly different from

radical 23 Radical 23 or radical hiding () is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two Stroke (CJK character), strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this Radical (Chinese ...

(hiding enclosure, ), whose second stroke starts is a bit right to the starting point of the first stroke. In

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, the two radicals were unified as right open box , which then became the 8th indexing component in ''

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'' predominantly adopted by

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dictionaries, and the nuance between the two radicals no longer exists; No associated indexing component is left after the merger. This merger also applies to

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in China's GB character set. Radical 22 and radical 23 were also unified in

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. JIS character set (including

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). Mainstream Japanese fonts and dictionaries do not distinguish between the two radicals.Examples include ''Shin Meikai Gendai Kanwa Jiten'' published by

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. While its index lists both radicals, they both lead to the same merged radical.

Evolution

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Oracle bone script Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtl ...

character File:匚-bronze.svg,

Bronze script Chinese bronze inscriptions, also referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, comprise Chinese writing made in several styles on ritual bronzes mainly during the Late Shang dynasty () and Western Zhou dynasty (771 BC). Types of bron ...

character File:匚-bigseal.svg,

Large seal script The term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou dynasty (403 BCE), or more broadly to also include the ...

character File:匚-seal.svg,

Small seal script The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used i ...

character An archaic version of this radical, directly regularised from the bronzeware and seal script forms, occasionally appears in regular script (kai shu) or printed text as 𠥓 (12 strokes, 匚 + 10 strokes, e.g., 𠥧, an archaic version of 杯) and is used for the transcription of ancient inscriptions.

Derived characters

Literature

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References

External links

Unihan Database - U+531A
{{Simplified Chinese radicals 022

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