Radical 39

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← 38 Radical 39 (U+2F26) 40 →
(U+5B50) "child, seed"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄗˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:tzyy
Wade–Giles:tzŭ3
Cantonese Yale:
Jyutping:zi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:chú
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
こ ko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:자 ja
Names
Chinese name(s):子字旁 zǐzìpáng
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
Stroke order animation

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.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 83 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2
+3 SC (=孫)
+4 (=學)
+5 (= -> ) SC/JP (=學)
+6 SC (=孿)
+7
+8
+9
+10 (=孳)
+11
+13
+14
+16 (=孽)
+17
+19 孿

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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • 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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