Radical 31

囗
← 30 Radical 31 (U+2F1E) 32 →
囗 (U+56D7) "enclosure"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wéi
Bopomofo:	ㄨㄟˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	wei
Wade–Giles:	wei2
Cantonese Yale:	wàih
Jyutping:	wai4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	ûi
Japanese Kana:	イ i (on'yomi) かこ-む kako-mu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	위 wi
Hán-Việt:	Vi
Names
Chinese name(s):	國字框/国字框 guózìkuàng 大口框 dàkǒukuàng
Japanese name(s):	国構/くにがまえ kunigamae
Hangul:	에운담 eundam
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Radical 31 or radical enclosure (囗部) meaning "enclosure" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 118 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

囗 is also the 38th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	囗 〇[1]
+2	囙 (=因) 囚 四 囜
+3	囝 回 囟 因 囡 团SC (=團) 団JP (=團)
+4	囤 囥 囦 囧 囨 囩 囪 囫 囬 (=回) 园SC (=園) 囮 囯 (=國) 困 囱 囲JP (=圍) 図SC (=圖) 围SC (=圍) 囵SC (=圇) 囶 囷 囸
+5	囹 固 囻 囼 国SC/JP (=國) 图SC (=圖)
+6	囿 圀
+7	圁 圂 圃 圄 圅 (=函) 圆SC (=圓)
+8	圇 圈 圉 圊 國
+9	圌 圍 圎 (=圓) 圏JP (=圈) 圐
+10	圑 園 圓 圔 圕
+11	圖 圗 (=圖) 團 圙
+12	圚
+13	圛 圜
+19	圝
+23	圞

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: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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