Radical 61 (U+2F3C)
(U+5FC3) "heart"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xīn
Bopomofo:ㄒㄧㄣ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:shin
Wade–Giles:hsin1
Cantonese Yale:sām
Jyutping:sam1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:sim
Japanese Kana:シン shin (on'yomi)
こころ kokoro (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:심 shim
Names
Chinese name(s):(忄) 豎心旁/竖心旁 shùxīnpáng
(Bottom/⺗) 心字底 xīnzìdǐ
(⺗) 豎心底/竖心底 shùxīndǐ
Japanese name(s):心 kokoro
(忄) 立心偏/りっしんべん risshinben
(Bottom/㣺) 下心/したごころ shitagokoro
Hangul:마음 maeum
Stroke order animation

Radical 61 or radical heart (心部) meaning "heart" is one of 34 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes.

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into , which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into .

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

is also the 98th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1 SC (=憶)
+2 (= -> )
+3 JP (=應)
+4 SC (=憂) (=悴) 忿 怀SC (=懷) SC (=態) SC (=慫) SC (=憮) SC (=慪) SC (=悵) SC (=愴)
+5 (=恍) SC (= -> ) SC (=懟) SC (=懌)
+6 SC/JP (=戀) SC/JP/variant (=恆) (= -> ) (=悅) SC (=懇) (= -> ) JP (=惠) SC (=惡) (=恘) SC (=慟) SC (=懨) SC (=愷) SC (=惻) SC (=惱) SC (=惲) JP
+7 SC/TC/KO SC/HK/JP (=悅) JP (=惱) JP (=惡) SC (=愨) SC (=懸) SC (=慳) SC (=悞) SC (=憫)
+8 (= -> ) SC (= -> ) (=惕) SC/JP/variant (=懼) SC (=慘) SC (=懲) (= -> ) SC (=憊) SC (=愜) SC (=慚) SC (=憚) SC (=慣) SC variant SC variant
+9 TC variant (=惛) SC (=慍) SC (=憤) TC variant SC (=憒) SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC/JP variant
+10TC variant TC variant TC variant Kangxi (=慎) (also SC form of -> ) TC variant TC variant SC/TC/JP SC/JP SC variant SC (=懾) SC variant SC variant
+11TC TC variant (=愨) TC variant TC variant SC (=憖) (=憑) (=慟) SC variant JP SC variant
+12SC/TC TC variant TC variant SC/JP variant SC variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+13TC variant TC variant TC variant TC variant TC variant JP (=懷) SC (=懣) SC (=懶) SC/variant (=懍) SC variant SC variant
+14 TC variant TC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant JP
+15Traditional variant Traditional variant SC/TC (=懺)
+16
+17 GB TC variant
+18 Traditional variant (= -> )
+19
+20
+21 (=戇) SC (=戇)
+24

Sinogram

As a single radical the Chinese character means heart. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]


References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

See also

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