Radical 40

Radical 40 or radical roof (宀部) meaning "roof" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

宀
← 39 Radical 40 (U+2F27) 41 →
宀 (U+5B80) "roof"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mián
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧㄢˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mian
Wade–Giles:	mien^2
Cantonese Yale:	mìhn
Jyutping:	min4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	biân
Japanese Kana:	ベン ben (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	면 myeon
Names
Chinese name(s):	寶蓋頭/宝盖头 bǎogàitóu
Japanese name(s):	ウ冠/ウかんむり ukanmuri
Hangul:	집 jip
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 246 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

宀 is also the 48th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	宀
+2	宁 (als SC form of 寧) 宂 (=冗 -> 冖) 它 宄
+3	宅 宆 (=穹 -> 穴) 宇 守 安
+4	宊 宋 完 宍 (=肉 -> 肉) 宎 宏 宐 宑 宒
+5	宓 宔 宕 宖 宗 官 宙 定 宛 宜 宝^SC/JP (=寶) 实^SC (=實) 実^JP (=實) 宠^SC (=寵) 审^SC (=審)
+6	客 宣 室 宥 宦 宨 宩 宪^SC (=憲 -> 心) 宫^SC (=宮)
+7	宧 宬 宭 宮 宯 宰 宱 宲 害 宴 宵 家 宷 宸 容 宺 宻 (=密) 宼 (=寇) 宽 （SC, =寬) 宾^SC (=賓)
+8	宿 寀 寁 寂 寃 (=冤 -> 冖) 寄 寅 密 寇 寈
+9	寊 寋 富 寍 寎 寏 寐 寑 寒 寓 寔 寕 (=寧)
+10	寖 寗 (=甯) 寘 (=置 -> 网) 寙 寚 寛^JP (=寬) 寜 (=寧) 寝^SC/JP (=寢)
+11	寞 察 寠 寡 寢 寣 寤 寥 實 寧 寨
+12	審 寪 寫 寬 寭 寮
+13	寯 寰
+14	寱 寲
+16	寳 (=寶) 寴 寵
+17	寶
+18	寷

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). 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.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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