Radical 49 or radical oneself (己部) meaning "oneself" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 己 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 己 (U+5DF1) "oneself" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | jǐ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄐㄧˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chi3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | géi | |
| Jyutping: | gei2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kí | |
| Japanese Kana: | キ ki / コ ko (on'yomi) おのれ onore / つちのと tsuchinoto (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 기 gi | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 己/おのれ onore | |
| Hangul: | 몸 mom | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
己 is also the 52nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 已 and 巳 are affiliated to the principal indexing component 己.
In Chinese astrology, 巳 represents the sixth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Snake in the Chinese zodiac. In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system tiāngān, 己 represents the sixth Celestial stem.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 己 (oneself) 已 (already) 巳 (6th Celestial stem) |
| +1 | 巴 |
| +4 | 巵 |
| +5 | 巶 |
| +6 | 巷 巸 巹 巺 (=巽) 巻JP (=卷 -> 卩) |
| +7 | 巼KO |
| +9 | 巽 |
Sinogram
editThe radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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.
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