Radical 61

← 60 Radical 61 (U+2F3C) 62 →
(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
Stroke order animation

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 , which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into .

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

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, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .