net

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from the pictographic depiction of a net in seal script and oracle-bone script, with vertical and horizontal strokes interlacing to form a mesh pattern.

Mnemonic: Picture a fishing net with vertical and horizontal threads crossing to form square mesh openings.

• 罣guà🔊

  variant of 掛|挂[gua4]

  11 strokes

• 罥juàn🔊

  bird catching net

  12 strokes

• 罦fú🔊

  net for catching birds

  12 strokes

• 罪zuì🔊

  variant of 罪[zui4], crime

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 罩zhào🔊

  to cover; to spread over

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 置zhì🔊

  to install

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 署shǔ🔊

  office

  13 strokes

• 罨yǎn🔊

  foment

  13 strokes

• 罫guà🔊

  squares of a chess board

  13 strokes

• 罭yù🔊

  drag-net

  13 strokes

• 罚fá🔊

  variant of 罰|罚[fa2]

  HSK 5

  14 strokes

• 罱lǎn🔊

  a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net

  14 strokes

• 罳sī🔊

  screen

  14 strokes

• 罴pí🔊

  brown bear

  14 strokes

• 骂mà🔊

  to scold

  HSK 5

  15 strokes

• 罢bà🔊

  to stop

  15 strokes

• 罶liǔ🔊

  creel

  15 strokes

• 罹lí🔊

  happen to

  16 strokes

• 罻wèi🔊

  bird net

  16 strokes

• 罽jì🔊

  (fishing net)

  17 strokes

• 罾zēng🔊

  large square net

  17 strokes

• 罿tóng🔊

  bird net

  17 strokes

• 羁jī🔊

  variant of 羈|羁[ji1]

  17 strokes

• 羀liǔ🔊

  old variant of 罶[liu3]

  18 strokes

• 羃mì🔊

  cover of cloth for food

  18 strokes

• 罗luó🔊

  gauze

  HSK 7

  19 strokes

• 羇jī🔊

  variant of 羈|羁[ji1]

  22 strokes