Radical 49
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|49|uni=5DF1
|meaning=oneself
|pny= jǐ
|bopo= ㄐㄧˇ
|wade= chi3
|jyutping= gei2
|yale= géi
|poj= kí
|onyomi= キ ki / コ ko
|kunyomi= おのれ onore / つちのと tsuchinoto
|jp= 己/おのれ onore
|hang= 몸 mom
|hanja= 기 gi
}}
Radical 49 or radical oneself ({{Lang|zh-Hant|己部}}) meaning "oneself" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|己}} is also the 52nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, {{Linktext|已|lang=zh-Hans}} and {{Linktext|巳|lang=zh-Hans}} are affiliated to the principal indexing component {{Lang|zh-Hans|己}}.
In Chinese astrology, 巳 represents the sixth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Snake in the Chinese zodiac. In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system tiāngān, 己 represents the sixth Celestial stem.
Evolution
File:己-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:己-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:己-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:己-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|己}} (oneself) {{Linktext|已}} (already) {{Linktext|巳}} (6th Celestial stem) |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巴}} |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巵}} |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巶}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巷}} {{Linktext|巸}} {{Linktext|巹}} {{Linktext|巺}} (=巽) {{Linktext|巻}}JP (={{Linktext|卷}} -> 卩) |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巼}}KO |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巽}} |
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 fifth 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 }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 049}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5DF1 Unihan Database - U+5DF1]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}