Read Edit View history Discussion 盇 hé why not? would it not be better to? Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Pictograph of a lid on top of a vessel. The semantic component 皿 (dish) was added later. Based on the original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. Pinyin Separate values with commas hé × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Depicts a lid over a vessel. Not related to 太 (very). Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 盇 Simp strokes 盇 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 盇 Simp strokes 盇 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 盇 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 242, 577 ], [ 296, 573 ], [ 412, 598 ], [ 674, 640 ], [ 732, 640 ], [ 777, 629 ] ], [ [ 467, 814 ], [ 498, 792 ], [ 514, 760 ], [ 488, 625 ], [ 451, 509 ], [ 417, 449 ], [ 364, 392 ], [ 317, 359 ], [ 269, 336 ], [ 208, 317 ] ], [ [ 512, 584 ], [ 573, 506 ], [ 647, 427 ], [ 717, 368 ], [ 873, 336 ] ], [ [ 431, 414 ], [ 456, 409 ], [ 508, 380 ], [ 530, 348 ] ], [ [ 236, 242 ], [ 269, 219 ], [ 284, 197 ], [ 316, 67 ], [ 334, 58 ] ], [ [ 293, 241 ], [ 320, 230 ], [ 638, 287 ], [ 698, 287 ], [ 725, 262 ], [ 732, 246 ], [ 687, 108 ], [ 654, 81 ] ], [ [ 415, 220 ], [ 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