Radical 28 or radical private (厶部) meaning "private" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.
| 厶 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 厶 (U 53B6) "private" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | sī | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄙ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ssu1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sī | |
| Jyutping: | mau5, si1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | su | |
| Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 사 sa | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 私字旁 sīzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | ム mu | |
| Hangul: | 사사로울 sasaroul | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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The radical character 厶 is the original form of 私 (private).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
厶 is also the 25th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 厶 |
| 2 | 厷 厸 厹 |
| 3 | 去 |
| 4 | 厽 |
| 5 | 厾 县SC (=縣 -> 糸) 私 |
| 6 | 叀 叁SC (=叄) 参SC/JP (=參) |
| 9 | 參 叄 |
| 10 | 叅 |
| 11 | 叆SC (=靉 -> 雨) |
| 13 | 叇SC (=靆 -> 雨) |
See also
edit- Mu (kana) (ム)
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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