Kanji Kaisen

字の旅2,200 years in two forms

Small seal · QinQin · 221 BCE

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Tools & Weapons

亠

亠 lid, top

なべぶた nabebuta

2 strokesRadical of 9 kanjiPart of 25

Your ink in 亠0% painted · 0 of 9 familiar

Origin · sourced

A couvercle with a handle on top.

Source: Wiktionary, 亠 (rev. 88354046), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a heavy wooden lid being placed on top of a bubbling iron pot—that's nabebuta! When you see this radical at the top of a kanji, think of something that sits on top, covers, or crowns a structure. It brings a sense of enclosure and the idea of being the "head" or the "ceiling" of a character.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates a lid, a cover, a high point, or the concept of being situated on top of something else.

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Every kanji with 亠 as its radical

Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

All 9 kanji