字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE乙3947反 合10755反
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The oracle bone stage shows 网 and the bronze stage shows 冈, not 罒 itself.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
罒 eye
よこめ yokome
5 strokesRadical of 6 kanjiPart of 14
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Source: Wiktionary, 网 (rev. 92739290), the entry for the full form, CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch from above! Imagine an eye turned on its side to peer down from the roof of a building. This radical is the spirit of "supervision," "judgment," and the "net" that captures those who break the law. When you see it at the top, think of an official "station," the "sin" that is observed, and the "punishment" delivered by a watchful authority.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates eyes, watching/supervision, judgment, legal networks (nets), official stations, sins, or the concept of an observing presence from above.
What it grows into
- 罪guiltザイ · つみ
罒 + 非
The original version is 𦋛 and its original meaning was a net for fishing, then used instead of 辠 due to the similarity of the latter character to 皇, which represents the Emperor.
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 署signatureショ
罒 + 者sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 罒 as its radical
All 6 kanji