Radical 8
| 亠 | |
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Radical 8 (U+2F07)
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| 亠 (U+4EA0) "lid, head" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | tóu (=頭/头) |
| Bopomofo: | ㄊㄡˊ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tour |
| Wade–Giles: | tʻou2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | tàuh |
| Jyutping: | tau4 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | thâu (col.) thô͘ (lit.) |
| Japanese Kana: | トウ tō (on'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 두 do |
| Hán-Việt: | đầu |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 點橫/点横 diǎnhéng 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu |
| Japanese name(s): | 鍋蓋/なべぶた nabebuta 卦算冠/けいさんかんむり kēsankanmuri |
| Hangul: | 돼지해머리 dwaejihaemeori |
| Stroke order animation | |
Radical 8 or radical lid (亠部), whose meaning as an independent word is unknown, but is often interpreted to be a "lid" when used as a radical. Of the 214 Kangxi radicals, Radical 8 is one of 23 which are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
亠 is also the 17th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.