down box

Origin & mnemonic

This radical stems from a pictographic origin, representing a square box or enclosed space depicted as two intersecting strokes (horizontal and vertical). It serves as a foundational component in characters expressing spatial or boundary concepts.

Mnemonic: Remember two strokes forming an open-bottomed square frame, like a box without a lid.

• 冂jiōng🔊

  radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

  2 strokes