Radical 49

Radical 49 or radical oneself (己部) meaning "oneself" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

己
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己 (U+5DF1) "oneself"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	jǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄐㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:	chi3
Cantonese Yale:	géi
Jyutping:	gei2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kí
Japanese Kana:	キ ki / コ ko (on'yomi) おのれ onore / つちのと tsuchinoto (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	기 gi
Names
Japanese name(s):	己/おのれ onore
Hangul:	몸 mom
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

己 is also the 52nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 已 and 巳 are affiliated to the principal indexing component 己.

In Chinese astrology, 巳 represents the sixth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Snake in the Chinese zodiac. In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system tiāngān, 己 represents the sixth Celestial stem.

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	己 (oneself) 已 (already) 巳 (6th Celestial stem)
+1	巴
+4	巵
+5	巶
+6	巷 巸 巹 巺 (=巽) 巻JP (=卷 -> 卩)
+7	巼KO
+9	巽

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 fifth grade kanji.^[1]