Radical 44

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{redirect|尸|ceremonial spiritual concept|Shi (personator)}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|44|uni=5C38

|meaning=corpse

|pny= shī

|bopo= ㄕ

|gr= shy

|wade= shih1

|jyutping= si1

|yale= sī

|poj= si

|cn= 尸字頭/尸字头 shīzìtóu

|onyomi= シ shi

|kunyomi= しかばね shikabane

|kanji= 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

|hang= 주검 jugeom

|hanja= 시 si

}}

Radical 44 or radical corpse ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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

File:尸-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:尸-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

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

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尸}} (also SC form of 屍)
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| +1

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

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尻}} {{Linktext|尼}}
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| +3

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

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尾}} {{Linktext|尿}} {{Linktext|局}} {{Linktext|屁}} {{Linktext|层}}SC (=層) {{Linktext|屃}}SC (=屓=屭)
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屄}} {{Linktext|居}} {{Linktext|屆}} {{Linktext|屇}} {{Linktext|屈}} {{Linktext|屉}}SC (=屜) {{Linktext|届}}SC/JP (=屆)
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屋}} {{Linktext|屌}} {{Linktext|屍}} {{Linktext|屎}} {{Linktext|屏}}
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屐}} {{Linktext|屑|lang=zh-Hans}}SC/TC/JP 83JIS/{{Linktext|屑|lang=ko}}JP JIS 2004/KO {{Linktext|屒}} {{Linktext|屓}} (=屭) {{Linktext|屔}} {{Linktext|展}} {{Linktext|屖}} {{Linktext|屗}} {{Linktext|屘}}
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屙}} {{Linktext|屚}} (={{Linktext|漏}} -> ) {{Linktext|屛}}Kangxi (=屏) {{Linktext|屜}} {{Linktext|屝}} {{Linktext|屠|lang=zh-Hans}}SC/TC/JP 83JIS variant
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屠|lang=ko}}JP JIS 2004/KO variant {{Linktext|属}}SC/JP (=屬) {{Linktext|屟}} {{Linktext|屡}} (SC/JP, 屢)
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| +11

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屢}} {{Linktext|屣}} {{Linktext|層|lang=ja}}JP
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| +12

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|層|lang=zh-Hans}}TC/{{Linktext|層|lang=ko}}KO {{Linktext|履}} {{Linktext|屦}}SC (=屨) {{Linktext|屧}}
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| +14

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屨}}
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| +15

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屩}} {{Linktext|屪}}
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| +16

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屫}}
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| +18

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屬}}
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| +21

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

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 }}