shell

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph of a seashell or oyster shell in oracle-bone and seal script, depicting the two-part hinged form of a bivalve shell.

Mnemonic: Remember the shell radical as two hinged shells closing together.

• 货huò🔊

  goods

  HSK 4

  11 strokes

• 贪tān🔊

  to have a voracious desire for

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 贩fàn🔊

  to deal in

  11 strokes

• 贫pín🔊

  poor

  11 strokes

• 贯guàn🔊

  to pierce through

  11 strokes

• 责zé🔊

  duty

  11 strokes

• 贬biǎn🔊

  to diminish

  11 strokes

• 赇qiú🔊

  to bribe

  11 strokes

• 赈zhèn🔊

  to provide relief

  11 strokes

• 赉lài🔊

  to bestow

  11 strokes

• 赊shē🔊

  to buy or sell on credit

  11 strokes

• 买mǎi🔊

  to buy

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 赌dǔ🔊

  to bet; to gamble

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 费fèi🔊

  to cost

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 贴tiē🔊

  to stick

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 贵guì🔊

  expensive

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 贺hè🔊

  to congratulate

  12 strokes

• 赔péi🔊

  to compensate for loss

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 赐cì🔊

  (bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 赏shǎng🔊

  to bestow (a reward)

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 贰èr🔊

  two (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

  12 strokes

• 赎shú🔊

  to redeem

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 贷dài🔊

  to lend on interest

  12 strokes

• 赋fù🔊

  poetic essay

  12 strokes

• 贮zhù🔊

  to store

  12 strokes

• 贳shì🔊

  to borrow

  12 strokes

• 贶kuàng🔊

  to bestow

  12 strokes

• 贻yí🔊

  to present

  12 strokes

• 贸mào🔊

  commerce

  12 strokes

• 贲bēn🔊

  energetic

  12 strokes

• 赍jī🔊

  (literary) to harbor (a feeling)

  12 strokes

• 赑bì🔊

  used in 贔屭|赑屃[bi4 xi4]

  12 strokes

• 赒zhōu🔊

  to give to the needy

  12 strokes

• 赕dǎn🔊

  (old barbarian dialects) to pay a fine in atonement

  12 strokes

• 贾Jiǎ🔊

  surname Jia

  13 strokes

• 贼zéi🔊

  thief; robber

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 赖lài🔊

  variant of 賴|赖[lai4]

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 赀zī🔊

  to estimate

  13 strokes

• 赂lù🔊

  bribe

  13 strokes

• 赁lìn🔊

  to rent

  13 strokes

• 贿huì🔊

  (bound form) bribery

  13 strokes

• 赅gāi🔊

  complete

  13 strokes

• 资zī🔊

  resources

  13 strokes

• 賌gāi🔊

  old variant of 賅|赅[gai1]

  13 strokes

• 赗fèng🔊

  (literary) gift (of money etc) to a bereaved family

  13 strokes

• 赚zhuàn🔊

  to earn

  HSK 6

  14 strokes

• 赛sài🔊

  to compete

  HSK 6

  14 strokes

• 宾bīn🔊

  visitor

  14 strokes