字の旅2,200 years in two forms
Small seal · QinQin · 221 BCE說文‧凵部
Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
凵 container, open jaw
かんにょう kannyou
2 strokesRadical of 5 kanjiPart of 6
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A cave.
Source: Wiktionary, 凵 (rev. 92199977), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open wide! This radical represents the simple receptivity of a deep bowl and the raw, archaic power of a wide-open jaw. When you see it "wrapping" around the bottom of a character like a floor, think of catching falling objects, guarding a hollow space, and the boundaries of a sturdy container. It brings a sense of storage and the endless capacity to contain the world to its characters.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates containers (bowls, holes), the act of catching or falling into something, openings, or a state of being "sunken" or enclosed from the bottom.
What it grows into
- 出exitシュツ · でる
- 凶villainキョウ
凵 becomes 凶
Pictogram (象形) and/or Ideogram (指事)- with the '凵' component representing a hole in the ground and with the '㐅' component (if an ideogram) indicating the existence of a hole and/or (if a pictogram) representing rock, mud, stone or bamboo in the hole. Alternately, could be derived from the upper component of '㚇'.
Pictogram · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 凵 as its radical
All 5 kanji