Radical 83
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Radical 83 or radical clan (氏部) meaning "clan" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
氏 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
- Oracle bone script character
- Bronze script character
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 氏 |
| +1 | 氐 民 |
| +2 | 氒 |
| +4 | 氓 |
Sinogram
As an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fourth grade kanji.
- In Japanese it refers to Japanese clans or uji. It also refers to Ujigami (氏神) which are gods originally limited to clans which are now worshipped by everyone in a region.
- In Chinese it refers to Chinese clan surnames. Historically Chinese surnames had two levels with the higher level xing (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) shared by many people and the lower level shi (Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) which was frequently changed. Similar to Roman nomen and Cognomen
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). (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.