The Japanese Radical: 冊


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Meaning
bamboo tablets    冊

Explanation

Used in these characters:
典
JLPT 3Joyo 4
law code, ritual, precedent
nori, TEN
冊 八
Top: variant of writing tablets 冊, bottom: table
The writing tablets on the table are a law code/canon (for the ceremony).  
輪
JLPT 3Joyo 4
wheel, ring, hoop
wa, RIN
車 侖 冊
Left: vehicle 車, right: (Chinese only) line-up 侖 (lid and a bundle of bamboo tablets 冊) Here: See the tablets as four wheels leaning upright against each-others
They belong to a vehicle but now they stand upright under a cover: The wheels.  
編
JLPT 2Joyo 5
compile, knit, edit, book
amu, HEN
糸 扁 戸 冊
Left: thread 糸, right: door plate 扁 (= a door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊) - (Here: 戸 as book covers)
Use a thread 糸 and book covers 戸 and pages 冊 to create (= knit or sew) a compilation.  
冊
JLPT 2Joyo 6
book, volume
SATSU
冂 冊

Pictograph: bundle of bamboo writing tablets = volume of a book.  
論
JLPT 2Joyo 6
debate, argument, opinion, discourse
RON
言 侖 冊
Left: word 言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: (Chinese only) line up 侖 (lid on a bundle of bamboo writing tablets 冊)
Words are well lined-up in a debate.  
嗣
JLPT 1Joyo 7
inherit, succeed to
tsugu, SHI
口 冊 司
Left: mouth 口, book/volume 冊 (bundle of bamboo writing tablets), right: administration/civil servant 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
He spoke, wrote it on the tablets and gave (his last will) to the civil servant for the inheritance.  
偏
JLPT 1Joyo 7
bias, unilateral, partial, incline, left-side radical
katayoru, HEN
亻 扁 戸 冊
Left: person 人, right: door plate 扁 (= a door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊)
People with such a door plate show their bias.  
遍
JLPT 1Joyo 7
everywhere, widely used, universally
amaneku, HEN
辶 扁 戸 冊
Left: movement 辶, right: door plate 扁 (= a door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊)
Movable door plates are everywhere.  
倫
JLPT 1Joyo 7
ethics, principles
RIN
亻 侖 冊
Left: person 人, right: (Chinese only) line up 侖 (lid and bundle of bamboo writing tablets 冊)
(About the question) how persons can be below a lid next to each others: That's ethics.  
柵
JLPT -Joyo 7
fence, railing, barrier
SAKU
木 冊 用
Left: tree 木, right: bundle of bamboo writing tablets/book volume 冊 (here: image of a fence)
Made of wood and looking like a fence: A fence.  

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