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子
子
子 (U+5B50) "child, seed"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄗˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	tzyy
Wade–Giles:	tzŭ3
Cantonese Yale:	jí
Jyutping:	zi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	chú
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi); こ ko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	자 ja
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 子字旁 zǐzìpáng (Bottom) 子字底 zǐzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	子偏/こへん kohen; 子供/こども kodomo; 子供偏/こどもへん kodomohen; 捨て子偏/すてごへん sutegohen
Hangul:	아들, 알 · adeul, ssi
Stroke order animation

Radical 39 or radical child (子部) meaning "child" or "seed" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 83 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

子 is also the 54th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Chinese astrology, 子 represents the first Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Rat in the Chinese zodiac.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	子孑孒孓
+1	孔
+2	孕
+3	孖字存孙^SC (=孫)
+4	孚孛孜孝孞斈 (=學)
+5	孟孠 (=嗣 -> 口) 孡孢季孤孥学^SC/JP (=學) 孧
+6	孨孩孪^SC (=孿)
+7	孫孬孭
+8	孮孯孰孲
+9	孱
+10	孳孴孶 (=孳)
+11	孵孷
+13	學孹
+14	孺孻
+16	孼 (=孽)
+17	孽孾
+19	孿

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 first 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.