Radical 132

自
← 131 Radical 132 (U+2F83) 133 →
自 (U+81EA) "self"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zì
Bopomofo:	ㄗˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	tzyh
Wade–Giles:	tzŭ4
Cantonese Yale:	jih
Jyutping:	zi
Japanese Kana:	ジ ji / シ shi (on'yomi) みずか-ら mizuka-ra (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	자 ja
Names
Japanese name(s):	自/みずから mizukara
Hangul:	스스로 seuseuro
Stroke order animation

Radical 132 or radical self (自部) meaning "self" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

自 is also the 137th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

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 second grade kanji^[1]

• 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.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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