Radical 83

氏
Radical 83 (U+2F52)
氏 (U+6C0F) "clan"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shì
Bopomofo:ㄕˋ
Wade–Giles:shih4
Cantonese Yale:sih, jī
Jyutping:si6, zi1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:sī
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
うじ uji (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:씨 ssi
Names
Japanese name(s):氏/うじ uji
Hangul:성 seong
Stroke order animation

Radical 83 or radical clan (氏部) meaning "clan" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

氏 is also the 89th 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 氏
+1 氐 民
+2 氒
+4 氓

Sinogram

As an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]

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.

References

  1. ^ 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.