The Japanese Radical: 冂


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Meaning
encover    冂

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 5Joyo 1
circle, round, Yen
marui, EN

Within an enclosure two persons are symbolized by their mouths . From this follows round and the form of money.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
same
onaji,
A container upside down: , one and an opening
All containers only have one opening, and that is the same.  
JLPT 5Joyo 2
south
minami, NAN
At the camping ground it is preferred (and therefore more expensive) to have the entrance of the tent directed towards the south.
It costs Yen ¥ to have the entrance to the south.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
wind, manner, style
kaze,
A sail and an insect (The additional stroke is the horizontal sail boom )
The insect is blown into the sail by: the wind.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
opposite side, yonder, turn one's head, situation
muku, mukeru,
A house with a window
In this house, the window is on the opposite side, you just have to turn around.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
inside, within
uchi, NAI, DAI
Enclosure with: person
A person within a frame is inside.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
meat, flesh
NIKU
Top: inside , person - Or: twice [=rips], around which the meat is. (As a radical simplified to: , which looks equal as the radical for month/moon)
The inside of a person is flesh. (Or easier: Image of marbled meat.)  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
surrounding, around, circumference
mawari, SHŪ
Outside: partly enclosed , inside: luck (A samurai with a full mouth is happy )
Even limited luck affects the surrounding.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
again, twice, re-
futatabi, SAI, SA
Top: one , below: upturned basket
One upturned basket again!  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
steel
hagane,
Left: metal , right: hill (Here as a bloomery hearth for steel smelting, in which iron ore and charcoal were stacked alternately as a hill.) Or: Steel is [compared to cast iron] elastic like a rope:
Metal from this hill (=oven) is steel.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
book, volume
SATSU

Pictograph: bundle of bamboo writing tablets = volume of a book.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
furthermore, besides, esteem, respect
nao, tattobu, SHŌ
Top: small , bottom: house with a window
A small house with a window is furthermore also esteemed.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
net, network, dragnet
ami,
Left: thread , right: image of a trawl/dragnet (net with a pull lines ), inside: death (= coffin in cross section)
With threads a dragnet for 'dead fishing' is made, which stands in general for: a net.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
hill
oka,
Outside: trawl/dragnet with drag ropes , inside: mountain (cf. rope or net )
Caught in a net, a mount shrinks to a hill.  

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