Radical 146

Radical 146 or radical west (襾部) meaning "cover" or "west" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

襾
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襾 (U+897E) "cover, west"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yà
Bopomofo:	ㄧㄚˋ
Wade–Giles:	ya4
Cantonese Yale:	ka1, a3
Jyutping:	kaa1, aa3
Japanese Kana:	アカ aka / エケ eke (on'yomi) おおう oou (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	아 a
Names
Chinese name(s):	西字頭/西字头 xīzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	西/にし nishi 覆冠/おおいかんむり ooikanmuri
Hangul:	덮을 deopeul
Stroke order animation

Stroke order of the component form 覀

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

覀, a variant form of 襾, is the 126th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 西 listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	襾 西 覀Component
+3	要
+5	覂
+6	覃 覄 (=覆)
+7	覅 (=𧟰)
+12	覆
+13	覇 (=霸 -> 雨) 覈
+17	覉
+19	覊 (=羈 -> 网)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/西

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.

See also

• Unihan Database - U+897E