厶
Radical 28 (U+2F1B)
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
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Radical 28 or radical private (厶部) meaning "private" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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

Literature

  • 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.
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