The Japanese Radical: 勹


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Meaning
wrap    勹

Explanation The function of this radical 勹 for “to wrap” is easily recognizable with "package 包" or "chest/breast 胸".

Used in these characters:
JLPT 3Joyo 3
office, situation, bureau, department
KYOKU
Top: buttocks in side view 尸, below: phrase/clause 句 (sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口)
When the 'butt' is talking phrases, it is like in the office.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
pack, wrap, envelop
tsutsumu,
Top: wrap 勹, bottom: self 己 (Following the winding path I find myself.)
The "wrapping" itself makes it to be a wrapped package.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
average, level, balance
hitoshii, KIN
Left: earth 土, right: ladle 勺 with a bit more 丶ノ in it
The earth in the ladle is average.  
JLPT 1Joyo 5
phrase, clause, rhythmic section in poem, paragraph
KU
Outside: wrap up/cover 勹, inside: mouth 口
She covered her mouth at such a phrase. Or: Sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
chest, breast, bosom, heart
mune, muna, KYŌ
Left: body part 月/肉, right: 匈 (wrap 勹 and bad luck/disaster 凶 [The marked 㐅 container 凵 brings bad luck]) - Here: 凶 as a "void volume"
The body's part that wraps a "void volume" is: the chest.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
respect, honor, esteem
uyamau, KEI
Left: any, at all 苟 (plant 艹, sentence, phrase 句 [= sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口]), right: strike/hit 攵(hand 又 with stick ノ)
A plant speaking a sentence can strike with respect.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
lagoon, beach, inlet
kata, SEKI
Left: water 氵, right: mortar 臼, which looks like the inlet to a bay, wrap 勹 and four legs 灬 (cf. bird 鳥, horse 馬
Behind the water is the bay, wherein wrapped (= protected) four legs 灬 (= animals) are: in the lagoon.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
chrysanthemum
KIKU
From top: plant 艹, wrap 勹, rice 米
The plant that is first wrapped and then blossoms like the kanji for rice 米 is: the chrysanthemum.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
arrest, seize, catch, adhere to
kakawaru,
Left: hand 扌, right: sentence 句 (sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口), Here: a gripping ="wrapping" 勹 hand and wrist in cross-section 口)
The hand "enwraps" a wrist at the arrest.  
JLPT 1Joyo 8
unit of measure
SHAKU
Approx. 18 ml
Image of a ladle 勹 with sth. in it 丶.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
serve wine, bartending, pouring alcohol
kumu, SHAKU
Left: wine mug 酉, right: one Shaku 勺 (old measure of volume - 18 ml: image of a ladle 勹 with sth. in it 丶)
Wine in a portion of a 'shaku' is served.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
a 10 day period, decade
JUN
Wrap sth. 勹, sun 日
When the sun is wrapped (by clouds), then often for the duration of 10 days.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
dutiful death, martyrdom
JUN
Left: bare bone 歹 (rib or vertebrae), right: period of 10 days 旬 (The wrapped 勹 sun 日 = cloudy weather often lasts for 10 days.)
Up to the bare bones he fought for ten more days, until his dutiful death.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
impure, muddy/cloudy liquid, uncleanness
nigoru/su, DAKU
Left: water 氵, right: eye 罒, wrap 勹, insect 虫
The water has unclear view of insects (as if wrapped up) as it is impure/muddy. (But it clears 澄 because the (clean) water 氵 rises 登)  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
fishing, angling, lure
tsuru/ri, CHŌ
Left: metal 金, right: ladle 勺 (image of a ladle with sth. in it; old measure of capacity: SHAKU; ca. 18 ml)
A metal hook 勹 (with a bait 丶) is for fishing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
pottery, porcelain, ceramic

Left: hill 阝, right: wrapping 勹 and a can 缶 (lid and can opener 十 of that can 凵)
Take it from the hill (as clay), and make a "wrapping" such as a can: It is pottery.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
embrace, hug, cuddle
daku, idaku, kakaeru,
Left: hand 扌, right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
Your hands wrapped me when embracing me.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
foam, bubble, froth
awa,
Left: water 氵, right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
When water is wrapping: it is foam.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
placenta, womb

Left: body part 月/肉, right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
The bodypart for "wrapping" in the placenta.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cannon, slingshot, gun barrel

Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
Stones were 'wrapped' in a slingshot (catapult), which is like a cannon.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
sated, having eaten enought, satiate, tired of, bored
aku/kiru/kasu,
Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
If the food is 'enwrapped' (= in my stomach), I am full/sated.  
JLPT 1Joyo 8
Monme, weight unit 3,75g
monme,
A ladle 勺 with a mark 㐅
The ladle with the mark weighs one Monme.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
bent, slope, capture

Enwrap 勹 and nose ム - Compare with: fishing 釣 [つり], where a metal 金 fishhook 勹 with a lure 丶 is shown
The nose looks "wrapped" when it is bent. OR: A fishhook with a bent lure for: capture.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
foal, colt, young horse, shogi/chess figure
koma,
Left: horse 馬 (image with mane 三 in the wind, four legs 灬 and the tail フ), right: sentence, phrase 句 (sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口); Here: see similarity to placenta/womb 胞
The horse that comes out of the uterus 勹 (= the birth canal 勹) with its head 口 at birth is a foal.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
smell, odor, scent
nioi,
Top: wrap 勹 (here: seen as a jacket or coat, thus something that is “wrapping”), below: sitting person 匕
Inside the jacket of a sitting person it may develop a certain smell.  

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