This radical shows a hill. This radical 阝 is always on the left of the hanzi. (Please note that this relatively similar radical ⻏ stands for “village” and is in the character always on the right.)
This character 缶 is rarely used in Chinese. The meaning of this radical is borrowed from Japanese: 缶 (=かん) = box. It is understood as a pestle 午 in a mortar 凵. As the pestle 午 in the mortar is vertical, it has the meaning “noon” [wǔ], as the sun is then also vertical.
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Vocabulary
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甄陶
zhēn táo
to make sth of clay; to appraise people of talent
陶甄
táo zhēn
to mold and educate people
熏陶
xūn táo
to seep in; to influence; to nurture; influence; training
立陶宛
Lì táo wǎn
Lithuania; the Lithuanian republic, former Baltic Soviet republic
立陶宛人
Lì táo wǎn rén
Lithuanian (person)
陶哲轩
Táo Zhé xuān
Terence Tao, Chinese-Australian mathematician, Fields medalist in 2006
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