Radical 49

Radical 49 meaning "oneself" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

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

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.

Characters with Radical 49

seal script character

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
• Lunde, Ken (Jan. 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf. 

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5DF1

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