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子 (U+5B50) "child, seed" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | zǐ | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄗˇ | |||
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tzyy | |||
Wade–Giles: | tzŭ3 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | jí | |||
Jyutping: | zi2 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chú | |||
Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) こko (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 자ja | |||
Names | ||||
Chinese name(s): | (Left) 子字旁 zǐzìpáng (Bottom) 子字底 zǐzìdǐ | |||
Japanese name(s): | 子偏/こへん kohen 子供/こども kodomo 子供偏/こどもへん kodomohen 捨て子偏/すてごへん sutegohen | |||
Hangul: | 아들, 알 · adeul, ssi | |||
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Radical 39orradical child (子部) meaning "child"or"seed" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 83 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
子 is also the 54th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
InChinese astrology, 子 represents the first Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Rat in the Chinese zodiac.
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+0 | 子 孑 孒 孓 |
+1 | 孔 |
+2 | 孕 |
+3 | 孖 字 存 孙SC (=孫) |
+4 | 孚 孛 孜 孝 孞 斈 (=學) |
+5 | 孟 孠 (=嗣 -> 口) 孡 孢 季 孤 孥 学SC/JP (=學) 孧 |
+6 | 孨 孩 孪SC (=孿) |
+7 | 孫 孬 孭 |
+8 | 孮 孯 孰 孲 |
+9 | 孱 |
+10 | 孳 孴 孶 (=孳) |
+11 | 孵 孷 |
+13 | 學 孹 |
+14 | 孺 孻 |
+16 | 孼 (=孽) |
+17 | 孽 孾 |
+19 | 孿 |
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 first grade kanji[1]
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See also: Kangxi radicals |
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. |