字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE菁2.1 合6057 賓組
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The oracle bone, bronze and seal stages show 邑, not ⻏ itself.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
⻏ village, country, city
おおざと oozato
3 strokesRadical of 13 kanjiPart of 14
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
The bottom part of the radical is unrelated to 巴 and the top component is most likely unrelated to the original version of 丁.
Built from 囗 “enclosure; city wall” + 卪 “kneeling person”
Source: Wiktionary, 邑 (rev. 92739605), the entry for the full form, CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Welcome to the village! This "big town" radical brings the feeling of community, borders, and organized civilization to a kanji. When you see it on the right side, imagine a busy city street or a quiet country village. It's the radical of geography, settlement, and the places we call home.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates villages, towns, cities, districts, geographical locations, or the concept of a settled country or community.
What it grows into
- 部sectionブ · べ
咅sound + ⻏
It originally refers to a place in today's Gansu.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 郡countyグン · こおり
⻏ + 君sound
It represents one of the ancient local administrative divisions.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 都metropolisト · みやこ
者sound + ⻏
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with ⻏ as its radical
All 13 kanji