Radical 31

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

囗
← 30 Radical 31 (U+2F1E) 32 →
囗 (U+56D7) "enclosure"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wéi
Bopomofo:	ㄨㄟˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	wei
Wade–Giles:	wei2
Cantonese Yale:	wàih
Jyutping:	wai4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ûi
Japanese Kana:	イ i (on'yomi) かこ-む kako-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	위 wi
Hán-Việt:	Vi
Names
Chinese name(s):	國字框/国字框 guózìkuàng 大口框 dàkǒukuàng
Japanese name(s):	国構/くにがまえ kunigamae
Hangul:	에운담 eundam
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 118 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

囗 is also the 38th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	囗 〇[1]
+2	囙 (=因) 囚 四 囜
+3	囝 回 囟 因 囡 团SC (=團) 団JP (=團)
+4	囤 囥 囦 囧 囨 囩 囪 囫 囬 (=回) 园SC (=園) 囮 囯 (=國) 困 囱 囲JP (=圍) 図SC (=圖) 围SC (=圍) 囵SC (=圇) 囶 囷 囸
+5	囹 固 囻 囼 国SC/JP (=國) 图SC (=圖)
+6	囿 圀
+7	圁 圂 圃 圄 圅 (=函) 圆SC (=圓)
+8	圇 圈 圉 圊 國
+9	圌 圍 圎 (=圓) 圏JP (=圈) 圐
+10	圑 園 圓 圔 圕
+11	圖 圗 (=圖) 團 圙
+12	圚
+13	圛 圜
+19	圝
+23	圞

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.