Left: ground, foundation 氐 (The family 氏 sits at the "bottom", on the floor 一), right: village⻏ [氏 = A distorted person 人 = 亻= 厂 together with a "plus +" as a multiplier results in a family.]
Variant of hill 丘. Clan families often had their estates on the top of hills. This developed into the family name. It can be seen as one person 人, which is modified as: 厂 and a “plus +” as a multiplier, so that many persons form a family.
This radical is always at the right side of the hanzi and means "village". Please note the difference to this radical 阝, which means "hill" and is always at the left side of the character.
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Vocabulary
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邸报
dǐ bào
imperial bulletin, palace report dating back to Han dynasty
蛮邸
mán dǐ
foreign mission (in former times); residence of barbarian emissary
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