Radical 83
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|83|uni=6C0F
|meaning=clan
|pny= shì
|bopo= ㄕˋ
|wade= shih4
|jyutping= si6, zi1
|yale= sih, jī
|poj= sī
|cn=
|onyomi= シ shi
|kunyomi= うじ uji
|jp= 氏/うじ uji
|hang= 성 seong
|hanja= 씨 ssi
}}
Radical 83 or radical clan ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|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
File:氏-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:氏-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:氏-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:氏-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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! Strokes !! Characters | |
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|氏}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|氐}} {{Linktext|民}} |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|氒}} |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|氓}} |
Sinogram
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.
- In Japanese it refers to Japanese clans or uji.
- It also refers to Ujigami (氏神) which are gods originally limited to clans which are now worshipped by everyone in a region.
- In Chinese it refers to Chinese clan surnames. Historically Chinese surnames had two levels with the higher level xing ({{zh|c=姓|p=xìng}}) shared by many people and the lower level shi ({{zh|c=氏|p=shì}}) which was frequently changed. Similar to Roman nomen and Cognomen
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 }}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Radical 083}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=6C0F Unihan Database - U+6C0F]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}