Radical 33

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{redirect|士}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|33|uni=58EB

|meaning=scholar, bachelor

|pny= shì

|bopo= ㄕˋ

|gr= shyh

|wade= shih4

|jyutping= si6

|yale= sih

|poj= sū

|cn=(Top) 士字頭/士字头 shìzìtóu
(Side) 士字旁 shìzìpáng

|onyomi= シ shi

|kunyomi= さむらい samurai

|name= 士/さむらい samurai
(Top) 士冠/さむらいかんむり samuraikanmuri

|hang= 선비 seonbi

|hanja= 사 sa

}}

Radical 33 or radical scholar (士部) meaning "scholar" or "bachelor" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 24 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In mainland China, this radical is merged to radical earth ({{Lang|zh-Hans|土}}, principal indexing component #29 in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components) as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

File:士-slip.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:士-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:士-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:士-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|士}}
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| +1

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壬}}
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壭}} (KO)
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壮}}SC/JP (=壯)
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壯}} {{Linktext|声}}SC/JP (={{Linktext|聲}} -> ) {{Linktext|壱}}JP (=壹) {{Linktext|売}}JP (={{Linktext|賣}} -> )
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壳}}SC (={{Linktext|殼}} -> )
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壴}} {{Linktext|壵}}
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壶}}SC (=壺)
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壷}}JP (=壺) {{Linktext|壸}}SC (=壼)
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壹}} {{Linktext|壺}} {{Linktext|壻}}
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壼}}
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| +11

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壽}}
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| +12

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|壾}} {{Linktext|壿}} {{Linktext|夀}} (=壽)
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| +13

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|夁}}

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a fourth grade kanji.

References

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Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}