Radical 14

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Pinyin: mì Wade–Giles: mi4 Jyutping: mik6		Bopomofo: ㄇ一ˋ Cantonese Yale: mik6 Hiragana: わかんむり wakanmuri

Radical 14, meaning cover, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 30 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

Literature

Fazzioli, Edoardo. 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.

Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

References

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