| 匸 | ||||
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| 匸 (U+5338) "hiding enclosure" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | xì | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧˋ | |||
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shih | |||
| Wade–Giles: | hsi4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | hái | |||
| Jyutping: | hai2 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | ケイ kē (on'yomi) かくす kakusu (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 혜 hye | |||
| Hán-Việt: | hệ | |||
| Names | ||||
| Chinese name(s): | 區字框/区字框 qūzìkuàng | |||
| Japanese name(s): | 隠構/匸構/かくしがまえ kakushigamae | |||
| Hangul: | 감출 gamchul | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||
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Radical 23 orradical hiding[1]enclosure (匸部) is one of the 23Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of twostrokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
In Traditional Chinese used inTaiwan,Hong Kong andMacau, radical 23 (hiding enclosure,匸), whose second stroke starts is a bit right to the starting point of the first stroke, is slightly different fromradical 22 (right open box,匚).'
Inmainland China, radical 22 and 23 were unified as right open box匚, and the nuance, as well as radical hiding enclosure, no longer exists inSimplified Chinese characters. This merger also applies to Traditional Chinese characters in China'sGB character set.
A similar merger was also made inJapanese kanji, including theirkyūjitai forms inJIS X 0208 character set. Some Japanese dictionaries keep the two radicals in their indexes, but they both lead to the same merged radical.[2]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 匸 |
| +2 | 匹区SC/JP (=區) |
| +6 | 匼 |
| +7 | 匽 |
| +9 | 匾匿區 |
