Radical 39 or radical child (子部) meaning "child" or "seed" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 子 | ||
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| 子 (U+5B50) "child, seed" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zǐ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄗˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tzyy | |
| Wade–Giles: | tzŭ3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jí | |
| Jyutping: | zi2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chú | |
| Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) こ ko (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 자 ja | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 子字旁 zǐzìpáng (Bottom) 子字底 zǐzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 子偏/こへん kohen 子供/こども kodomo 子供偏/こどもへん kodomohen 捨て子偏/すてごへん sutegohen | |
| Hangul: | 아들, 알 · adeul, ssi | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 83 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
子 is also the 54th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Chinese astrology, 子 represents the first Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Rat in the Chinese zodiac.
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 |
|---|---|
| +0 | 子 孑 孒 孓 |
| +1 | 孔 |
| +2 | 孕 |
| +3 | 孖 字 存 孙SC (=孫) |
| +4 | 孚 孛 孜 孝 孞 斈 (=學) |
| +5 | 孟 孠 (=嗣 -> 口) 孡 孢 季 孤 孥 学SC/JP (=學) 孧 |
| +6 | 孨 孩 孪SC (=孿) |
| +7 | 孫 孬 孭 |
| +8 | 孮 孯 孰 孲 |
| +9 | 孱 |
| +10 | 孳 孴 孶 (=孳) |
| +11 | 孵 孷 |
| +13 | 學 孹 |
| +14 | 孺 孻 |
| +16 | 孼 (=孽) |
| +17 | 孽 孾 |
| +19 | 孿 |
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 first 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.
External links
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