字の旅2,200 years in two forms
Small seal · QinQin · 221 BCE說文‧襾部
Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
襾
襾 cover, west
にし nishi
6 strokesRadical of 4 kanjiPart of 7
Your ink in 襾0% painted · 0 of 4 familiar
Origin · sourced
According to Xu Shen, it is 冂 overlapped with 凵 and a horizontal stroke on top to indicate the act of covering something.
Source: Wiktionary, 襾 (rev. 89768724), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Spread the canopy! This radical represents a protective layer or a lid that wraps over the top of a character. When you see it, think of a shielding cover, a containment, or the direction where the sun goes to rest. It brings a sense of enclosure and the finality of sunset to the characters it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates a cover, a lid, a state of being contained, or the geographical direction of the west.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 襾, with sourced origins
- 覆capsizeフク · おおう
襾 + 復sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 襾 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 4 kanji