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㔾

jié
radical_variant

Meanings

  1. 1 kneeling person radical variant (of 卩)
  2. 2 alternate form of the seal/joint radical, Kangxi #26

Tips

usage
㔾 is a rare alternate of the kneeling-person radical 卩, which depicts a person bending at the joint. You'll mostly meet the parent 卩 in modern characters; 㔾 is encoded for CJK structural analysis and surfaces only in a handful of obscure or historical glyphs.
history
Exact origin uncertain — 㔾 is treated as a positional or stylistic variant of 卩, which itself derives from a pictograph of a kneeling figure. The two are visually almost identical and many sources fold them into a single radical entry.
usage
Rarely encountered outside specialist contexts. For everyday reading, learn the parent 卩 instead, as in 印 (print/seal), 即 (immediately), 却 (however), 卷 (roll), 卫 (guard).

Radical

Seal Kangxi #26

The 卩 radical, originally a pictograph of a kneeling person and the proto-form of 节. A productive right-side radical for characters involving kneeling, ritual, sealing, or submission: 卯, 印, 即, 却, 卷, 卸. Indexes one of the oldest semantic clusters in the script.

Forms
卩 jié
Default 9 characters
㔾 jié
Right 4 characters

Used in

Showing 4 of 4 · right form 㔾 of 卩
卷 juǎn
to roll up; to curl · to sweep up; to engulf
卷 juàn
scroll · volume; chapter
危 wēi
danger; dangerous · to endanger; to jeopardize
卮 zhī
(classical) an ancient round wine vessel holding about four sheng