The Chinese Radical: 匚


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Meaning
right open box    匚

Explanation embrace

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
medical, doctor, to cure

Outside a box 匸 and within an arrow 矢 (= An arrow ノ in the sky 天)
(Think of acupuncture in TCM:) In the box are arrows for the medical treatment.  
HSK 4
district, area, region
qū, ōu
Enclosure 匚 with a marking 㐅
An enclosure with a cross stands for an urban district. [with a street crossing?]  
HSK 5
to converge (of rivers), collection, remit
huì
Left: water 氵, right: embracement 匚
The water is embraced and collected in the confluence.  
HSK 5
huge, very large, tremendous, gigantic

Left: frame 匚, inside: staring eye
The staring eye is huge.  
HSK 6
to smash, crush, to fail, to get it wrong

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.  
no HSK
gangster, bandit
fěi
Outside: embracement 匚 and: not 非 (inverted wings 羽)
Within our embracement (= area) we do not want him: The gangster!  
no HSK
craftsman
jiàng
Outside: box 匚 (simplified from: to work 工), inside: axe 斤
In the box is the axe of the craftsman.  
no HSK
box
xiá
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.  
no HSK
to rectify, to correct sth.
kuāng
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]  
no HSK
dam, embankment, dike, bank, weir
yàn
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.  
no HSK
deficiency, to lack, empty, exhausted
kuì
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]  
no HSK
cheerful, satisfied
qiè
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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