Radical 158
Chinese character radical
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Radical 158 or radical body (身部) meaning "body" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
| 身 | |
|---|---|
Radical 158 (U+2F9D)
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| 身 (U+8EAB) "body" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | shēn |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄣ |
| Wade–Giles: | shen1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | san1 |
| Jyutping: | san1, gyun1 |
| Japanese Kana: | シン shin (on'yomi) み mi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 신 sin |
| Hán-Việt: | thân |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 身字旁 shēnzìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 身/み mi 身偏/みへん mihen |
| Hangul: | 몸 mom |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 97 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
身 is also the 160th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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 third grade kanji.[1]
