Radical 14

Radical 14 or radical cover (冖部), meaning cover, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 30 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

冖 is also the 19th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Literature

 * Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
 * KangXi: page 130, character 12
 * Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1565
 * Dae Jaweon: page 292, character 12
 * Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 302, character 14
 * Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 302, character 14