HSK Guide

部首 23a hiding place; to conceal, tuck away

(third tone, dipping)

a hiding place; to conceal, tuck away

部首 232 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A box laid on its side, open along one edge — a recess just deep enough to tuck something out of sight. An arrow 矢 slotted into it gives the simplified 医, doctor, from a story in which the earliest medicine was the surgeon’s arrowhead kept ready in its case; something living pressed into the same recess gives 匿, to hide.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.