字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
囗
囗 enclosure, border
くにがまえ kunigamae
3 strokesRadical of 12 kanjiPart of 12
Your ink in 囗0% painted · 0 of 12 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram of a square-shaped enclosure. Unrelated to 口 (open mouth) and most likely unrelated to the original version of 丁 (head of a nail).
Source: Wiktionary, 囗 (rev. 93450313), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a sturdy wall encircling a city! This radical completely wraps around other elements, containing them safely within its borders like a fence or a country's frontier. It represents the concept of being bounded, limited, or gathered within a specific space.”
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 囗, with sourced origins
- 図mapズ · え
囗 + 啚
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, 圖, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 国countryコク · くに
囗 + 或sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 國, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 団groupダン · かたまり
囗 + 專sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 團, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 囗 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 12 kanji