Radical 132
Radical 132 or radical self (自部) meaning "self" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 自 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 自 (U+81EA) "self" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zì | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄗˋ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tzyh | |
| Wade–Giles: | tzŭ4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jih | |
| Jyutping: | zi | |
| Japanese Kana: | ジ ji / シ shi (on'yomi) みずか-ら mizuka-ra (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 자 ja | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 自/みずから mizukara | |
| Hangul: | 스스로 seuseuro | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
自 is also the 137th 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
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.
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