Radical 158

Radical 158 or radical body (身部) meaning "body" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

身
← 157 Radical 158 (U+2F9D) 159 →
身 (U+8EAB) "body"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shēn
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄣ
Wade–Giles:	shen1
Cantonese Yale:	san1
Jyutping:	san1, gyun1
Japanese Kana:	シン shin (on'yomi) み mi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	신 sin
Hán-Việt:	thân
Names
Chinese name(s):	身字旁 shēnzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	身/み mi 身偏/みへん mihen
Hangul:	몸 mom
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 97 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

身 is also the 160th 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	身
+3	躬
+4	躭 (=耽 -> 耳) 躮 躯SC/JP (=軀)
+5	躰 (=體 -> 骨)
+6	躱 (=躲) 躲
+7	躳 (=躬) 躴 躵
+8	躶 (=裸 -> 衣) 躷 (=矮 -> 矢) 躸 躹 躺 躻 躼
+9	躽 躾
+10	躿
+11	軀 軁
+12	軂 軃 (=躲 / 嚲 -> 口) 軄 (=職 -> 耳) 軅JP (=軈)
+13	軆 (=體 -> 骨)
+14	軇
+17	軈JP
+20	軉

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/身

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 third grade kanji.^[1]