Radical 44

尸
Radical 44 (U+2F2B)
尸 (U+5C38) "corpse"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shī
Bopomofo:ㄕ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:shy
Wade–Giles:shih1
Cantonese Yale:sī
Jyutping:si1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:si
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
しかばね shikabane (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:시 si
Names
Chinese name(s):尸字頭/尸字头 shīzìtóu
Japanese name(s):尸/しかばね shikabane
尸冠/しかばねかんむり shikabanekanmuri
尸/かばね kabane
尸垂/かばねだれ kabanedare
Hangul:주검 jugeom
Stroke order animation

Radical 44 or radical corpse (尸部) meaning "corpse" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 148 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

尸 is also the 51st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 尸 (also SC form of 屍)
+1 尹 尺
+2 尻 尼
+3 尽SC/JP (=盡 -> 皿)
+4 尾 尿 局 屁 层SC (=層) 屃SC (=屓=屭)
+5 屄 居 屆 屇 屈 屉SC (=屜) 届SC/JP (=屆)
+6 屋 屌 屍 屎 屏
+7 屐 屑SC/TC/JP 83JIS/屑JP JIS 2004/KO 屒 屓 (=屭) 屔 展 屖 屗 屘
+8 屙 屚 (=漏 -> 水) 屛Kangxi (=屏) 屜 屝 屠SC/TC/JP 83JIS variant
+9 屠JP JIS 2004/KO variant 属SC/JP (=屬) 屟 屡 (SC/JP, 屢)
+11 屢 屣 層JP
+12 層TC/層KO 履 屦SC (=屨) 屧
+14 屨
+15 屩 屪
+16 屫
+18 屬
+21 屭

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.