The Chinese Radical: 囗


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Meaning
enclosure    囗

Explanation This radical is enclosing other items. A small square within a character is understood as mouth.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
country, nation, state, national
guó
Outside: enclosure , inside: jade, king (At the feet of the king is his jade/jewels )
Like an enclosed juwel (jade): That's my country.
JLPT HSK 1
to revolve, to return, to go back
huí

Two squares rotate around a common axis, which represents a rotation and, in particular, a return movement.
JLPT HSK 1
four, 4


Image of a fist with four fingers (without thumb) seen from inside.
JLPT HSK 2
reason, cause, because
yīn
Outside: enclosure , inside: big person
The fence around the big person has its reason.
JLPT HSK 3
land used for growing plants, park
yuán
Outside: frame , inside: yuan, origin (=two legs )
With your garden you can earn Yuan , if you use it for growing plants.
JLPT HSK 3
picture, diagram, drawing, chart

Frame and inside: Winter: (With an upturned foot on the ice - it's winter) [ is typically seen as image of sitting cross-legged]
In the frame is a winterly picture.
JLPT HSK 4
to surround, sleepy, tired, distress
kùn
Outside: enclosure as a fence, inside: tree
The fenced tree is surrounded and in distress. (cf. to protect = Even though the person wanted a fence over the tree to protect it.)
JLPT HSK 4
to encircle, to surround, enwrapped
wéi
Left: enclosure , right: soft leather /韋 (Two layers are separated with a special sword to make leather.)
(Think of a shoe 鞋) It makes it enclosed by leather, to be well encircled.
JLPT HSK 5
hard, strong, solid, undoubtedly

Outside frame , but here: mouth , inside: old (= tomb stone). [Some things like the meat of old animals or full-grown vegetable becomes hard with age.]
In the mouth old things taste: hard. [In contrast: In the mouth have young things (= this is "not yet ") a special taste 味]
JLPT HSK 5
confined, circle, loop, to lock up, surround
juān, juàn, quān
Outside: enclosure , inside: spool (border guard [person with high lifted arms and two barrier bars ], slumped person )
In an enclosure a guard secures a slumped person, that is confined.
JLPT HSK 5
regiment, corporation, group, round, circular
tuán
Outside: enclosure , inside: talent (If the big man balances on one foot, he is talented.)
If you have your talents within the enclosure, you form a round regiment.
JLPT HSK 5
round, circle, spherical, full(-moon)
yuán
Outside: enclosure , inside: member /員 (Who has a mouth and money /貝 can become a member.)
When the members are within the enclosure, it becomes a round thing.
JLPT HSK 6
to tie together, bundle, a bunch
kǔn
Left: hand , right: surrounded, distress 困 (By the enclosure the tree is in distress)
The hand "surrounds" sth, if it ties together as a bundle.
JLPT HSK 6
mold, mildew, germ, bacteria, fungus
jūn, jùn
Top: plant , bottom: 囷 (enclosure , rice plant )
Plants enclosed like this rice plant will be affected by mold.
JLPT no HSK
prisoner
qiú
Outside: enclosure , inside: person
The person inside the enclosure is a prisoner.
JLPT no HSK
garden, orchard

Outside: enclosure , inside: just now (A hand for holding an item is what I need just now)
Within the enclosure, I make just now my gardening.
JLPT no HSK
chimney
cōng
Above: emphasis (here: image of a chimney), outside: frame (here: room), inside: turned foot / cross-legged
You sit cross-legged in a room below the chimney.
JLPT no HSK
to brine, salt, stupid, gravy

Above: devine (Here: handle of a cover), below: Barrel with something in
The lid on the pickle barrel with something that is brined.

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.

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