radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.

冂 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Mnemonic symbol: ㇆ just looks like a plow.

Someone attached a flute to the top of a crowbar to create a new instrument. When the crowbar is bowed with a plow, the vibrations of the crowbar will transfer to the flute, which in turn is producing eerie sounds.

Characters with 冂 as component

book / booklet / classifier for books

= + + : In the bathroom of the elevator (e4) the King of Chu (c) dug up all his photo collections of flutes (一) from all over the world. He is stapling (⺆) together random photos to publish different books (册) about flutes.
inside / inner / internal / within / interior

= + : Napoleon just can't find his stapler and suspects that Neanderthal Man has eaten it. Not thinking twice he orders Neanderthal Man to enter his CT scanner in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, finding his stapler in Neanderthal Man's stomach.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A CT scanner to see inside of someone.
ridge / mound

= + : Guy Fawkes followed a secret map to the anglepod and in front of it he finds a small mound. The instructions on the map say that if he can pull out the secret treasure, he will have the control over all of England, so he starts to pull on a small thing sticking out of the mound using pliers.
earthen pot / iron cauldron

= 𠮛 + + + : Guy Fawkes (g) is cooking an advanced recipe—which he is reading from an ancient scroll (𠮛) he found—in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He already set up an iron cauldron (鬲). For the next step he slaughtered a mean crocodile (丷) and tries to find its T-bone steak (丅) by following a map (冂) which was attached to the scroll.
stem / foot / base / root

= + + : Dorothy Gale (di) bought a cloister (古) and wants to set it up in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The package contained a vase (立), a stem (啇) and a manual showing how to combine the two items to get the cloister (a map 冂 in a metaphorical sense), but Dorothy has no idea how to set up her cloister.
my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a pair of old worn-out shoes.

Brunhilde (bi) has been on a treasure hunt for weeks now because she found an old map (冂). For her hunt she brought a sack of rice (米) which she already more or less used up. After digging up the floor of the space station's bathroom (Ø40) with a sledgehammer (攵) at the point indicated on the map, she finally finds the treasure: a pair of old worn-out shoes (敝) which were incredibly valuable to the owner, but are worthless for Brunhilde.
yen (Japanese currency) / Japanese variant of 圓|圆
to not have (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有[mei2 you3])
to not have (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有[mei2 you3]
variant of 回[hui2]
net (Kangxi radical 122)

Words with 冂

冂 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 冂

冂 currently does not appear in any sentence.