Radical 40

宀
Radical 40 (U+2F27)
宀 (U+5B80) "roof"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mián
Bopomofo:	ㄇ一ㄢˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mian
Wade–Giles:	mien2
Cantonese Yale:	mìhn
Jyutping:	min4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	biân
Japanese Kana:	ベン ben
Sino-Korean:	면 myeon
Names
Japanese name(s):	ウ冠 ukanmuri
Hangul:	집 jip
Stroke order animation

Radical 40 meaning "roof" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 246 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 40

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Great seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	宀
2 additional strokes	宁 宂 它 宄
3 additional strokes	宅 宆 宇 守 安
4 additional strokes	宊 宋 完 宍 宎 宏 宐 宑 宒
5 additional strokes	宓 宔 宕 宖 宗 官 宙 定 宛 宜 宝 实 実 宠 审
6 additional strokes	客 宣 室 宥 宦 宨 宩 宪 宫
7 additional strokes	宧 宬 宭 宮 宯 宰 宱 宲 害 宴 宵 家 宷 宸 容 宺 宻 宼 宽 宾
8 additional strokes	宿 寀 寁 寂 寃 寄 寅 密 寇 寈
9 additional strokes	寊 寋 富 寍 寎 寏 寐 寑 寒 寓 寔 寕
10 additional strokes	寖 寗 寘 寙 寚 寛 寜 寝
11 additional strokes	寞 察 寠 寡 寢 寣 寤 寥 實 寧 寨
12 additional strokes	審 寪 寫 寬 寭 寮
13 additional strokes	寯 寰
14 additional strokes	寱 寲
16 additional strokes	寳 寴 寵
17 additional strokes	寶
18 additional strokes	寷

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5B80