down box

Origin & mnemonic

This radical stems from a pictographic origin, representing a square box or enclosed space depicted as two intersecting strokes (horizontal and vertical). It serves as a foundational component in characters expressing spatial or boundary concepts.

Mnemonic: Remember two strokes forming an open-bottomed square frame, like a box without a lid.

• 冂jiōng🔊

  radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

  2 strokes

• 冇mǎo🔊

  to not have (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有[mei2 you3])

  4 strokes

• 冈gāng🔊

  ridge

  4 strokes

• 冃mào🔊

  old variant of 帽[mao4]

  4 strokes

• 円yuán🔊

  yen (Japanese currency)

  4 strokes

• 册cè🔊

  book

  HSK 5

  5 strokes

• 冉rǎn🔊

  variant of 冉[ran3]

  5 strokes

• 冋jiōng🔊

  old variant of 坰[jiong1]

  5 strokes

• 囘huí🔊

  variant of 回[hui2]

  5 strokes

• 再zài🔊

  again; once more; re-

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 冏jiǒng🔊

  velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family

  7 strokes

• 冒mào🔊

  to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth)

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 冑zhòu🔊

  variant of 胄[zhou4]

  9 strokes

• 冓gòu🔊

  inner rooms of palace

  10 strokes

• 冔xǔ🔊

  cap of Yin dynasty

  10 strokes

• 冕miǎn🔊

  crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations

  11 strokes