Radical 49

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Radical 49 (U+2F30)
(U+5DF1) "oneself"
Pinyin:
Bopomofo: ㄐㄧˇ
Wade–Giles: chi3
Jyutping: gei2
Cantonese Yale: gei2
Hiragana: キ ki
つちのと tsuchinoto
おのれ onore
Kanji: 己 onore
Hangul: 몸 mom
Sino-Korean: 기 gi

Radical 49 meaning "oneself" is 1 of 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.

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.

Characters with Radical 49

seal script character
strokes character
without additional strokes 己 已 巳
1 additional stroke
4 additional strokes
5 additional strokes
6 additional strokes 巷 巸 巹 巺
7 additional strokes
9 additional strokes

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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