字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE粹1198 合28030 無名組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
尸 corpse, awning
しかばね shikabane
3 strokesRadical of 15 kanjiPart of 19
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. Its ancient form is 𡰣.
Source: Wiktionary, 尸 (rev. 92689888), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lie down and cover up! This radical has two lives: it can represent the stillness of a body or the protection of a roof. When you see it, think of a person's physical state or a structure that hangs over a space. It’s the radical of residency, belonging, and the boundaries of a character's enclosure.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates a person's body (living or dead), residency/dwelling, awnings/coverings, or the state of belonging to a specific place.
What it grows into
- 尾tailビ · お
尸 + 毛
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 展unfoldテン
尸 + 𧝑sound
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 尸 + abbreviated phonetic 𧝑, which has a variant 𧝣; the original version is 㞡.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 局bureauキョク · つぼね
尸 + 句sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 尸 as its radical
All 15 kanji