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It is a pictograph depicting a person lying down horizontally, representing a corpse.

When used as a radical, it generally conveys meanings related to parts of the body or footwear.
It is also sometimes used interchangeably with 广 to denote meanings related to houses or roofs.
Characters like 屎 (feces), 尿 (urine), and 屁 (fart) use this radical and relate to human or animal excrement.

#36 — evening, dusk, right foot

#37 — large, big, great

#38 — female, woman, daughter

#39 — son, child, baby, male, person, you (second-person pronoun), fruit, seed

#40 — house

#41 — joint, inch (a unit of measurement), small/little, degree of kinship

#42 — small, little, smallness, small things

#43 — lame, crippled, person with a leg disability

#44 — corpse, dead body, a living person who represents the dead person during a rite

#45 — left hand, to sprout

#46 — mountain, grave

#47 — a stream where water flows, river, brook

#48 — master craftsman, master artisan, tool, to make, to build

#49 — self, ego, body

#50 — towel, cloth

#51 — shield, dry, to violate, to interfere

#52 — tiny, minute, young, or something like that

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尸

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