Radical 39

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.

子
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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

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
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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	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]