Radical 158

身
身
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

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

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

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.