网

See also: 網

网 U+7F51, 网 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F51 ← 罐 [U+7F50] CJK Unified Ideographs 罒 → [U+7F52]

⽹ U+2F79, ⽹ KANGXI RADICAL NET ← ⽸ [U+2F78] Kangxi Radicals ⽺ → [U+2F7A]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 罒 (used as a top position radical)
• 罓, 𦉫
• 㓁, ⺴ (as found in the top component of 罕 etc.)
• 𠔿

Han character

网 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+0, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 月大大 (BKK), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵冂⿰㐅㐅)

1. Kangxi radical #122, ⽹.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical number 279.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/网
• 䋞(𮉦), 蛧, 𧧜, 𨋹, 䰣, 𭩌, 䒽, 𧧧, 𧵽, 𡶬
• 岡, 罔 (originally contains 网 in small seal script)

Related characters

• 網 (Traditional Chinese character for 网)

Usage notes

• In phono-semantic (形聲) or ideogrammic (會意) compound characters, the radical as the semantic component may signify the sense of punishment, figuratively as a net that captures wrongdoing. Examples include 罪, 詈, 罰, 罵, 罷, etc.
• In 曼, 夢, and derived characters, the middle component 罒 originates from 目 (“eye”) in oracle bone script and bronze script.

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 946, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28199
• Dae Jaweon: page 1387, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2913, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F51

Chinese

simp. and trad.		网
alternative forms		冈 罔 𦉪 𦉫 罒 冈 罔 𦉪 𦉫 罒 𦉰 䍏 𦉳 𦉯 𠕈 𠕃 𦉮 𦊀 𦉺 𦉾 𦌅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 网
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)			Libian (compiled in Qing)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Shizhoupian script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Clerical script

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
忙	*maːŋ
芒	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡	*maŋ
望	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Pictogram (象形) – a net. Sometimes, the web on top is stylized as 罒, which is unrelated to the eye 目: see 買, 罵, 詈 (used in 罰), 罷, and 羅 (> 罗), in which it represents a net.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 网 – see 網 (“net; web; network; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and ancient form of 網).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

网

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. net

Readings

• On (unclassified): もう (mō)、ぼう (bō)
• Kun: あみ (ami)