The Chinese Radical: 巛




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Meaning
wild river    巛

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 6
to patrol, to make one's rounds
xún
Left: movement 辶, right: wild river 巛 (var. of river 川, here: badge of rank of US-army sergeants)
The movement of US-sergeants is to patrol.  
HSK 6
nest
cháo
Top: 巛 (hear: three beaks), bottom: fruit, result 果 (here: nest 田 in a tree 木)
Three beaks in a nest in the tree are: a nest.  
no HSK
agate
nǎo
Left: king, jade 王, right: wild river 巛, druse 口 with an agate 㐅
The jade from a wild river in a druse is: the agate.  
no HSK
to extirpate, to plagiarize, to destroy
chāo, jiǎo
Left: nest 巢 (three beaks 巛 in a nest 田 in a tree 木), right: knife, to cut 刂
(All in) the nest I (kill) with the knife when extirpating.  
no HSK
(name of a river)

Left: water 氵, right: 甾 (wild river 巛, rice field 田)
This water as a wild river at the rice fields.  

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