Radical 28

"⼛" redirects here. For the Japanese katakana character ム, see Mu (kana).

Radical 28 or radical private (厶部) meaning "private" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

厶
← 27 Radical 28 (U+2F1B) 29 →
厶 (U+53B6) "private"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	sī
Bopomofo:	ㄙ
Wade–Giles:	ssu1
Cantonese Yale:	sī
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):	ム mu
Hangul:	사사로울 sasaroul
Stroke order animation

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

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+53B6