HSK Guide

部首 58a boar’s snout; a grasping hand, seen from above

(fourth tone, falling)

a boar’s snout; a grasping hand, seen from above

部首 583 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

Read one way, a boar’s snout seen from above; read another, a hand reaching down to grasp. Genuinely rare as an independent element, it appears mostly as a simplification shorthand rather than a meaningful picture — the simplified 归, to return, reuses this shape to stand in for a far more complicated traditional right-hand side, a graphic convenience rather than a trace of the boar or the hand it once may have drawn.

汉字 filed under

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