ベン, メン, うかんむり

shaped crown, katakana u radical (no. 40)

JLPT0 G13 S0 F5000

An abbreviated form of the covering element of a particular character, the shared final -N suggesting that the most likely candidates are , , , 賓 and . In these and other dual-element characters suggests a roof, one concealing the contents of a building → *roof*; *building*.

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