Radical 14

冖
冖
冖 (U+5196) "cover"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mì
Bopomofo:	ㄇ一ˋ
Wade–Giles:	mi4
Cantonese Yale:	mihk
Jyutping:	mik6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	be̍k
Japanese Kana:	ベキ beki (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	멱 myeok
Names
Chinese name(s):	禿寶蓋/秃宝盖 tūbǎogài
Japanese name(s):	ワ冠/ワかんむり wakanmuri; 平冠/ひらかんむり hirakanmuri; 冖冠/べきかんむり bekikanmuri
Hangul:	덮을 deopeul
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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.

Evolution

Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
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