Radical 39

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
Radical 39 (U+2F26)
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):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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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

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.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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