亻 一 丨 一 丿 | 尸 corpse, remains Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying, with its original meaning being corpse. When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in | 戸 声 尺 |