Radical 14 or radical cover (), 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.
is also the 19th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution Unrelated to 宀 and top component of .
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +2 +3 SC/JP (= -> 宀) +4 SC (= -> 辰) +5 SC (= -> 車) (= -> 宀) +6 +7 (= -> 辵) +8 (= -> 宀) +9 (= -> 宀) +12 (= -> 宀) +14
Literature
Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, 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
External links
Unihan data for U+5196