Radical 28

Radical 28 (U+2F1B)
(U+53B6) "private"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:
Wade–Giles:ssu1
Cantonese Yale:
Jyutping:mau5, si1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:su
Japanese Kana:シ shi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:사 sa
Names
Chinese name(s):私字旁 sīzìpáng
Japanese name(s): mu
Hangul:사사로울 sasaroul
Stroke order animation

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 is the original form of (private).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 25th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Japanese, this character (which resembles the katakana mu ()) was historically used as a short form of the verb gozaru (御座る):[1]

Watakushi wa ima jibun no kako no owai to, watakushi no tamashii no nikuteki fuhai to o omoikoshimashō. Sore wa watakushi ga sonna mono o aisuru ga tame de wa naku, Kika o aishiyō to yū no da kara de gozaimasu. Kika ni taisuru ai no tame ni watakushi wa sō suru no de gozaimasu. (私は今自分の過去の汚穢と、私の魂の肉的腐敗とを想ひ起しませう。それは私がそんなものを愛するが爲めではなく、私の神よ、貴下を愛しようといふのだからでいます。貴下に對する愛の爲めに私はさうするのでいます。; transl. I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul: not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it;[2])

— Miyahara Kōichirō, オウガスチン懴悔錄[3], 第二篇


Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3
+4
+5 SC (= -> )
+6 SC (=叄) SC/JP (=參)
+9
+10
+11 SC (= -> )
+13 SC (= -> )

See also

References

  1. ^ Tōdō, Akiyasu; Matsumoto, Akira; Takeda, Akira; Kanō, Yoshimitsu, eds. (11 December 2018). 漢字源 (in Japanese) (6th ed.). Gakken. ISBN 978-4-05-304619-2.
  2. ^ Augustine (1957) [1907]. "Book II". The Confessions of St Augustine. Translated by Pusey, Edward Bouverie. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. p. 21.
  3. ^ Augustine (2 February 1923). 第二篇. Augustine's Confessions オウガスチン懴悔錄 (in Japanese). Translated by Miyahara, Kōichirō. Ushigome, Tokyo: 文明書院. p. 46.

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