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Han character
自 (radical 132, 自+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月山 (HBU), four-corner 26000, composition ⿱丿目)
- Kangxi radical #132, ⾃.
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/自
- 息
References
- KangXi: page 1000, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30095
- Dae Jaweon: page 1452, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3046, character 1
- Unihan data for U+81EA
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Ancient script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Characters in the same phonetic series (自) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
郋 | *ɡiːl |
自 | *ɦljids |
洎 | *krids, *ɡrids |
臮 | *ɡrids |
垍 | *ɡrids |
詯 | *qʰʷlɯːls, *ɡʷlɯːls |
Originally a pictogram (象形) of a nose; in China (and East Asia) one points at one’s nose to indicate oneself, hence an ideogram (指事) of “self”.
The original meaning of “nose” has been lost. The derivative 鼻 refers to the original word.
Pronunciation
Definitions
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Compounds
Derived terms from 自
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Korean
Hanja
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