Radical 49

Radical 49 or radical oneself (己部) meaning "oneself" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

己
Radical 49 (U+2F30)
己 (U+5DF1) "oneself"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:jǐ
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:chi3
Cantonese Yale:géi
Jyutping:gei2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:kí
Japanese Kana:キ ki / コ ko (on'yomi)
おのれ onore / つちのと tsuchinoto (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:기 gi
Names
Japanese name(s):己/おのれ onore
Hangul:몸 mom
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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, 已 and 巳 are affiliated to the principal indexing component 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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0己 (oneself) 已 (already) 巳 (6th Celestial stem)
+1巴
+4巵
+5巶
+6巷 巸 巹 巺 (=巽) 巻JP (=卷 -> 卩)
+7巼KO
+9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.[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.[1]



References

  1. "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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