字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE合14294 賓組
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Action & Movement
勹
勹 to wrap
つつみがまえ tsutsumigamae
2 strokesRadical of 5 kanjiPart of 9
Your ink in 勹0% painted · 0 of 5 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A person bending over. In 包, it represents the placenta around a fetus 巳.
Source: Wiktionary, 勹 (rev. 84972991), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Keep it safe! Imagine reaching out to wrap a warm blanket around a friend or carefully "enclosing" a gift in paper. This radical is the spirit of protection and containment. When you see it wrapping around the top and right, think of a bandage, a kitchen knife (contained in its sheath), or the "encompassing" nature of a great plan.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates wrapping, enveloping, surrounding, protecting, containment, or objects associated with specific packages (like a bandage) or tools.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 勹, with sourced origins
- 包wrapホウ · つつむ
勹 becomes 包
A fetus (巳) in the womb (勹), or a swaddled baby. Shuowen gives both interpretations.
Pictogram · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 勹 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 5 kanji