HSK Guide

部首 43lame, crippled; a bent leg

wāng (first tone, high and level)

lame, crippled; a bent leg

部首 433 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A standing figure with one leg bent under it, the traditional picture of lameness — a body still upright but favoring one side. Very few common characters carry it today; it survives mainly as a dictionary classifier for a handful of rare words describing infirmity or a crooked stance, its everyday work in the modern language long since taken over by other, unrelated characters that merely resemble it.

汉字 filed under

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