| 心 | ||
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| 心 (U+5FC3) "heart" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | xīn | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄣ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shin | |
| Wade–Giles: | hsin1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sām | |
| Jyutping: | sam1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | sim | |
| Japanese Kana: | シン shin (on'yomi) こころ kokoro (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 심 shim | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (忄) 豎心旁/竖心旁 shùxīnpáng (Bottom/⺗) 心字底 xīnzìdǐ (⺗) 豎心底/竖心底 shùxīndǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 心 kokoro (忄) 立心偏/りっしんべん risshinben (Bottom/㣺) 下心/したごころ shitagokoro | |
| Hangul: | 마음 maeum (忄) 심방변/心傍邊 simbangbyeon | |
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Radical 61 or radical heart (心部) meaning "heart" is one of 34 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into 忄, which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into ⺗.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
心 is also the 98th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 忄 and ⺗, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 心.