Radical 83

Radical 83 or radical clan (氏部) meaning "clan" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

氏
← 82 Radical 83 (U+2F52) 84 →
氏 (U+6C0F) "clan"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shì
Bopomofo:	ㄕˋ
Wade–Giles:	shih4
Cantonese Yale:	sih, jī
Jyutping:	si6, zi1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	sī
Japanese Kana:	シ shi (on'yomi) うじ uji (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	씨 ssi
Names
Japanese name(s):	氏/うじ uji
Hangul:	성 seong
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

氏 is also the 89th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	氏
+1	氐 民
+2	氒
+4	氓

Sinogram

As an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.^[1]

• In Japanese it refers to Japanese clans or uji.
  • It also refers to Ujigami (氏神) which are gods originally limited to clans which are now worshipped by everyone in a region.
• In Chinese it refers to Chinese clan surnames. Historically Chinese surnames had two levels with the higher level xing (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) shared by many people and the lower level shi (Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) which was frequently changed. Similar to Roman nomen and Cognomen

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.