厶

See also: マ, ㇺ, ム, ﾑ, ㄙ, and 私
厶 U+53B6, 厶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53B6
← 厵
[U+53B5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厷 →
[U+53B7]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

厶 (radical 28, 厶+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 女戈 (VI) or X女戈 (XVI), four-corner 20730, composition ⿰𠃋丶)

  1. Kangxi radical #28, ⼛.

Descendants

Derived characters
  • Index:Chinese radical/厶
  • 勾

Usage notes

Similar strokes occur in various Chinese characters, where they often represent a stylized tail, as in 离 (“beast”) and 鬼 (“demon”).

References
  • KangXi: page 163, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3057
  • Dae Jaweon: page 371, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 383, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+53B6

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 厶
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (厶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
私 *sil
厶 *sil

Ideogram (指事) – revolving around oneself – original character for 私 (“selfish; private”).

According to Han Feizi, which was referenced in Shuowen:

古者蒼頡之作書也，自環者謂之厶 [MSC, trad.]
古者苍颉之作书也，自环者谓之厶 [MSC, simp.]
Gǔzhě Cāngxié zhī zuò shū yě, zì huán zhě wèi zhī sī [Pinyin]
In olden times, when Cangjie invented the system of writing, a self-encircling element was designated as the character for “private”.

Compare 公 (“public”).

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of 厶 – see 私 (“self; personal; private; selfish”).
(This character, 厶, is an ancient form of 私.)

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 厶 – see 某 (“certain; particular; I; etc.”).
(This character, 厶, is a variant form of 某.)

Japanese

Kanji
厶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): し (shi); ぼう (bō); む (mu)
  • Kun: わたくし (watakushi, 厶); ござる (gozaru, 厶る)

Korean

Hanja

厶 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

厶 (khư)

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References
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