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noun #54,386

Meanings

  1. 1 fontanelle (soft spot on an infant's skull)

Examples

Yīng'ér de xìn tóugǔ
A baby's fontanelle is the soft spot where the skull bones have not yet joined.
Xìn
Be careful not to press hard on a newborn's fontanelle.

Tips

usage
appears almost only in 囟门, the gap between an infant's skull bones that lets the head grow before fusing in early childhood.

Components

pictograph
xìn
fontanelle
A pictograph drawing the top of an infant's skull with the soft membrane gap shown by the X-like mark inside. The whole character pictures the unjoined crown of a baby's head and does not break into independent parts.

Filed under radical (wéi, #31) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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