The Chinese Radical: 匚


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Meaning
right open box    匚

Explanation embrace

Used in these characters:
医
JLPT HSK 1
medical, doctor, to cure
yī
匚 矢
Outside a box 匚 and within an arrow 矢 (= An arrow ノ in the sky 天)
(Think of acupuncture in TCM:) In the box are arrows (= needles) for the medical treatment.  
区
JLPT HSK 4
district, area, region
qū, ōu
区 匚 㐅
Enclosure 匚 with a marking 㐅
An enclosure with a cross stands for an urban district. [with a street crossing?]  
汇
JLPT HSK 5
to converge (of rivers), collection, remit
huì
氵 匚
Left: water 氵, right: embracement 匚
The water is embraced and collected in the confluence.  
巨
JLPT HSK 5
huge, very large, tremendous, gigantic
jù
巨 匚
Left: frame 匚, inside: staring eye
The staring eye is huge.  
匹
JLPT HSK 5
bolts of cloth, classifier for horses, ordinary person
pǐ
匚 匹
Box 匚, with two identical bales 儿
In the box are two ordinary bolts of cloth.  
砸
JLPT HSK 6
to smash, crush, to fail, to get it wrong
zá
石 匚 巾
Left: stone 石, right: 匝 (embracement 匚, cloth 巾
(A stone in a loop/hanger of cloth is like a slingshot:) A stone in an sling of cloth is used to smash things.  
匪
JLPT no HSK
gangster, bandit
fěi
匚 非
Outside: embracement 匚 and: not 非 (inverted wings 羽)
Within our embracement (= area) we do not want him: The gangster!  
匿
JLPT no HSK
to hide
nì
匚 若 右
Outside: box 匚, inside: seem as if 若 (The plant 艹 to the right 右 seems as if.)
A box seems as if you can hide sth.  
匠
JLPT no HSK
craftsman
jiàng
匚 工 斤
Outside: box 匚 (simplified from: to work 工), inside: axe 斤
In the box is the axe of the craftsman.  
匣
JLPT no HSK
box
xiá
匚 甲
Left: framing 匚, right: armor, shell 甲 (The seedling丨 cracks its shell/husk 田)
A framing needs a certain strength (=armor) to serve as a box.  
匡
JLPT no HSK
to rectify, to correct sth.
kuāng
匚 匡
Left: 匚, right: king 王
The country 国 of the king is not complete (the right side is missing), which must be rectified. [.. because it is a deficiency 匮]  
堰
JLPT no HSK
dam, embankment, dike, bank, weir
yàn
土 匚 日 女
Left: earth 土, right: 匽 (frame 匚, sun 日 (here: simplified field 田), woman 女)
The earth that (protects) as a frame the (simplified) fields and the women is: a dam.  
匾
JLPT no HSK
a board with an inscription, a sign above a door, a tablet
biǎn
匚 扁 戶 冊
Left: partial frame 匚, inside: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat. Or: A door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate")
A frame with a flat door plate is: a scripted board.  
匮
JLPT no HSK
deficiency, to lack, empty, exhausted
kuì
匚 贵
Left: frame 匚, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplified from 堇] and money 贝 are precious.)
If the frame for the precious things is open at the right, it is a deficiency. [..that needs to be corrected 匡]  
惬
JLPT no HSK
cheerful, satisfied
qiè
忄 匚 夹
Left: feeling 忄, right: embracement 匚 and squeeze in 夹 [A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed)] here: be included
The feelings of being included (= squeezed in) in an embracement are: cheerful.  

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