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It is a pictograph modeled after 'the shape of a pig's pointed nose facing upward'.
The name comes from the left part of the character 曰 (“mouth”) appearing open or spread horizontally, hence called the “Open Horizontal Mouth Radical.”

When used as a radical, some characters relate to pigs, but it is mainly used to classify characters containing the forms 彐, 彑, or ⺕.

#50 — towel, cloth

#51 — shield, dry, to violate, to interfere

#52 — tiny, minute, young, or something like that

#53 — house built to depend on a cliff, wide

#54 — to stride, going a long distance

#55 — to hold up with both hands

#56 — a stake, a wooden post

#57 — bow (for shooting arrows)

#58 — pig head/snout

#59 — hair

#60 — to walk a little, to take small steps

#61 — heart, mind, center, core

#62 — dagger-axe, spear (an ancient Chinese weapon similar to a halberd)

#63 — door, house number, house, home

#64 — hand

#65 — to support, to bear, to sustain, to calculate, to branch off

#66 — to hit, strike

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彐

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