Radical 33

Chinese character radical

士

← 32

Radical 33 (U+2F20)

34 →

士 (U+58EB) "scholar, bachelor"

Pronunciations

Pinyin:

shì

Bopomofo:

ㄕˋ

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:

shyh

Wade–Giles:

shih⁴

Cantonese Yale:

sih

Jyutping:

si6

Pe̍h-ōe-jī:

sū

Japanese Kana:

シ shi (on'yomi)
さむらい samurai (kun'yomi)

Sino-Korean:

사 sa

Names

Chinese name(s):

(Top) 士字頭/士字头 shìzìtóu
(Side) 士字旁 shìzìpáng

Hangul:

선비 seonbi

Stroke order animation

Radical 33 or radical scholar (士部) meaning "scholar" or "bachelor" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 24 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In mainland China, this radical is merged to radical earth (土, principal indexing component #29 in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components) as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	士
+1	壬
+2	壭 (KO)
+3	壮^SC/JP (=壯)
+4	壯声^SC/JP (=聲 -> 耳) 壱^JP (=壹) 売^JP (=賣 -> 貝)
+5	壳^SC (=殼 -> 殳)
+6	壴壵
+7	壶^SC (=壺)
+8	壷^JP (=壺) 壸^SC (=壼)
+9	壹壺壻
+10	壼
+11	壽
+12	壾壿夀 (=壽)
+13	夁

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 fourth grade kanji.^[1]

References

^ ^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.

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.