The Chinese Radical: 卩




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Meaning
bent person    卩

Explanation Shows a person 人 bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
clothes, dress, to take (medicine)

From left: body 月/肉, bent person 卩, hand 又
The (naked) body bends down with the hand for the clothes.
HSK 2
to announce, to inform, report, newspaper
bào
Left: hand 扌, right: bent person 卩 and a further hand 又
About the bent person with two different hands was informed in an announcement.
HSK 3
foot, leg, base
jiǎo, jué
Left: body part 月/肉, right: retreat 却 (Leaving 去 in a bowed卩 position is a retreat.) [to leave 去 = Below ground 土 is the nose 厶 that has left.]
The body part for making a retreat [= the leaving in a bowed position] is: the foot.
HSK 3
grandfather, grandpa, old gentleman

Top: father 父 (.. has a stick ノ in his hand ), bottom: bent person 卩
This "father" is a bent person: The grandfather.
HSK 4
to retreat, to go back, but, yet
què
Left: leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.), right: bowing person 卩
Leaving in a bowed position is a retreat.
HSK 4
immediate, prompt, namely, to approach

Left: simplification of "not good" 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good'), right: bent person 卩
Not good, this person should bow down: Immediately!
HSK 4
a stamp, to mark, engrave, seal
yìn
Left: hand press , right: bent person 卩
Under that press the bent person is stamped.
HSK 4
to guard, protect, defend, hygiene
wèi
Image of work/worker 工 with a hanging arm
We can use the worker with the hanging arm only for: guarding.
HSK 6
to govern, to manage, imperial, defend, resist

Left: go 彳, right: unload 卸 (At noon 午 (during that heat) we can stop 止 and as we are bent 卩, we can unload.)
I go at noon, stop and bow at the imperial, because I am governed.
HSK 6
to unload, unhitch, remove or strip, get rid of
xiè
Left: noon 午, to stop 止, right: bowing person卩
At noon (during that heat) we can stop and as we are bent, we can unload.
HSK 6
press down, restrain, restrict, suppress, or

Left: hand 扌, right: 卬 ([at the left] an odd person 人 bowing down 卩 deeply [at the right])
The hand that makes an 'odd' person to 'bow down deeply' is: repressing or restraining.
no HSK
high ranking official (old), honorific (old)
qīng
Outside: rabbit 卯 (Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers), inside: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good')
'Rabbit' is not good as an official honorific term.
no HSK
to knock, to kowtow
kòu
Left: mouth 口, right: bent person卩
The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of a bent person is a knocking. (e.g. with the walking stick 丨 on the ground)
no HSK
egg, ovum, spawn
luǎn
Similar to: rabbit 卯 (Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers)
Pictograph of eggs of fish or frog, which are aligned in a row.
no HSK
to splash, pump water, to whisper, to mutter

Left: mouth 口, right: immediate, prompt 即 (Not good 艮, this person should bow 卩 down, immediately!)
The mouth is not good, when during 'bowing down' sth. is: splashing out.
no HSK
4th earthly branch: Rabbit, mortise (slot for wooden tenon)
mǎo

Image of a rabbit's hole with a central passage and side chambers.

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