字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE乙8520 合21868 子組
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Tools & Weapons
殳 lance shaft, action
るまた rumata
4 strokesRadical of 7 kanjiPart of 16
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
Pictogram (象形) or Ideogrammic compound (會意): 𠘧 + 又 – a hand holding a tool similar to a hammer, hence activity (with a reference to the act of "beating").
Built from 𠘧 + 又
Source: Wiktionary, 殳 (rev. 93443950), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Take action! Imagine a hand gripping a sturdy wooden shaft, ready to strike or move an object with force. This radical is the soul of effort and physical change. When you see it on the right side, think of a strong action, a strike, or the heavy "shaft" of a tool being used to accomplish a grand task.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates physical force, striking, guidance, the use of handheld tools or weapons, or the active "doing" of a complex process.
What it grows into
- 段gradeダン
厂sound + 殳
In the bronze script it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲) and ideogrammic compound (會意): phonetic 厂 + semantic 殳, showing a hammer in hand breaking a stone with fragments coming off; 殳 was the pictogram of a hammer and later was borrowed to indicate a bamboo halberd. Most of the character is identical to 叚.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 殿Mr.デン · との
𡱂sound + 殳
Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 𡱂 + semantic 殳 (“hand holding a weapon”) – the sound of hitting (not attested in ancient documents).
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 毅strongキ · つよい
豙sound + 殳
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0