Radical 28

"⼛" redirects here. For the Japanese katakana character ム, see Mu (kana).

Radical 28 or radical private (厶部) meaning "private" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

厶
← 27 Radical 28 (U+2F1B) 29 →
厶 (U+53B6) "private"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	sī
Bopomofo:	ㄙ
Wade–Giles:	ssu1
Cantonese Yale:	sī
Jyutping:	mau5, si1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	su
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	사 sa
Names
Chinese name(s):	私字旁 sīzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	ム mu
Hangul:	사사로울 sasaroul
Stroke order animation

The radical character 厶 is the original form of 私 (private).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

厶 is also the 25th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Japanese, this character (which resembles the katakana mu (ム)) was historically used as a short form of the verb gozaru (御座る):^[1]

Watakushi wa ima jibun no kako no owai to, watakushi no tamashii no nikuteki fuhai to o omoikoshimashō. Sore wa watakushi ga sonna mono o aisuru ga tame de wa naku, Kika o aishiyō to yū no da kara de gozaimasu. Kika ni taisuru ai no tame ni watakushi wa sō suru no de gozaimasu. (私は今自分の過去の汚穢と、私の魂の肉的腐敗とを想ひ起しませう。それは私がそんなものを愛するが爲めではなく、私の神よ、貴下を愛しようといふのだからで厶います。貴下に對する愛の爲めに私はさうするので厶います。; transl. I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul: not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it;^[2])

— Miyahara Kōichirō, オウガスチン懴悔錄^[3], 第二篇

Evolution

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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	厶
+2	厷 厸 厹
+3	去
+4	厽
+5	厾 县SC (=縣 -> 糸) 私
+6	叀 叁SC (=叄) 参SC/JP (=參)
+9	參 叄
+10	叅
+11	叆SC (=靉 -> 雨)
+13	叇SC (=靆 -> 雨)

See also

• Mu (kana) (ム)

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.