<p>, as @songyuanyao expressed, is called 竹字头, 竹: bamboo.</p>

<p>篇, a quantifier, 一篇文章(an article), 一篇报道(a report), 一篇诗歌(a poem)</p>

<p>In ancient China, just as people of the other parts of the world did, used something instead of modern "paper" to write on, bamboo is frequently used as writing materials, it's cheap and easy to keep for a long time, people split bamboo into thin pieces, and join them together with lines, then engrave on those pieces and form a scroll, an unfolded scroll is 一篇, so that's why there is a "bamboo" on some characters like 篇.</p>

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2016-10-19T02:39:30.130Z
2016-10-19T02:39:30.130Z
maverickpuss
<p>If you can't see it, it's the same radical on top of 篇.</p>

<p>What is it? What does it mean? I've been trying to search for it on Google, on dictionaries, and other places, but I can't find any information about it. It doesn't even have any content in the Unicode dictionary.</p>

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May I ask how did you type it?
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What is this radical called? 
# What is this radical called? 

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-10-19)

If you can't see it, it's the same radical on top of 篇.

What is it? What does it mean? I've been trying to search for it on Google, on dictionaries, and other places, but I can't find any information about it. It doesn't even have any content in the Unicode dictionary.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: May I ask how did you type it?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2016-10-19. Score: 1

, as @songyuanyao expressed, is called 竹字头, 竹: bamboo.

篇, a quantifier, 一篇文章(an article), 一篇报道(a report), 一篇诗歌(a poem)

In ancient China, just as people of the other parts of the world did, used something instead of modern "paper" to write on, bamboo is frequently used as writing materials, it's cheap and easy to keep for a long time, people split bamboo into thin pieces, and join them together with lines, then engrave on those pieces and form a scroll, an unfolded scroll is 一篇, so that's why there is a "bamboo" on some characters like 篇.


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