Radical 49

己 已 巳
48 ⼯ ◄	49	► ⼱ 50
Pinyin :	jǐ (= self)
Zhuyin :	ㄐ ㄧ ˇ
Hiragana :	お の れ onore
Kanji :	己 onore or巳 mi
Hangul :	몸
Sinocorean :	기
Codepoint :	U + 5DF1 5DF2 5DF3
Stroke sequence :

Radical 49 with the basic meaning " self " is one of 31 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of three strokes.

With only a few combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it has a low frequency.

The radical occurs in three variants with different pronunciation and meanings:

• 己 (jǐ) = personal, yourself;
• 已 (yǐ) = already, already; too, afterwards;
• 巳 (sì) = the sixth branch of the earth to which the snake (蛇shé ) is assigned as an animal .

With the meaning "self" there is also the radical 132自.

Character combinations ruled by radical 49

Strokes	character
+ 00	己 已 巳
+ 01	巴
+ 04	巵
+ 05	巶
+ 06	巷 巸 巹 巺
+ 07	巼
+ 09	巽

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 49 is coded under the code point number 12.080 (U + 2F30).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 34 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 49  - Graphic representations of Radikal 49

Wiktionary: 已  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 49 on page 42