Radical 33

"士" redirects here. For other uses, see 士 (disambiguation).

士
Radical 33 (U+2F20)
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. It is a fourth grade kanji.

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+58EB