Radical 83 or radical clan (氏部) meaning "clan" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

← 82 Radical 83 (U+2F52) 84 →
(U+6C0F) "clan"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shì
Bopomofo:ㄕˋ
Wade–Giles:shih4
Cantonese Yale:sih, jī
Jyutping:si6, zi1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
うじ uji (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:씨 ssi
Names
Japanese name(s):氏/うじ uji
Hangul:성 seong
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 89th 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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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Sinogram

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As an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]

Literature

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  • 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.

References

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