Radical 28 or radical private (厶部) meaning "private" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.
The radical character 厶 is the original form of 私 (private).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
厶 is also the 25th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 厶 |
+2 | 厷 厸 厹 |
+3 | 去 |
+4 | 厽 |
+5 | 厾 县SC (=縣 -> 糸) 私 |
+6 | 叀 叁SC (=叄) 参SC/JP (=參) |
+9 | 參 叄 |
+10 | 叅 |
+11 | 叆SC (=靉 -> 雨) |
+13 | 叇SC (=靆 -> 雨) |
See also
- Mu (kana) (ム)
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: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.