Radical 8
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This article is about Radical lid. For Radical eight (八), see Radical 12.
Radical 8 or radical lid (亠部), whose meaning as an independent word is unknown, but is often interpreted to be a "lid" when used as a radical, is radical 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals and consists of two strokes.
Quick Facts 亠, Pronunciations ...
亠 | ||||
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亠 (U+4EA0) "lid, head" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | tóu (=頭/头) | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄊㄡˊ | |||
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tour | |||
Wade–Giles: | tʻou2 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | tàuh | |||
Jyutping: | tau4 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | thâu (col.) thô͘ (lit.) | |||
Japanese Kana: | トウ tō (on'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 두 do | |||
Names | ||||
Chinese name(s): | 點橫/点横 diǎnhéng 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu | |||
Japanese name(s): | 鍋蓋/なべぶた nabebuta 卦算冠/けいさんかんむり kēsankanmuri | |||
Hangul: | 자의미상 jauimisang | |||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
亠 is also the 17th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.