Radical 128 or radical ear (耳部) meaning "ear" in English is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 耳 | ||
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| 耳 (U 8033) "ear" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | ěr | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄦˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | eel | |
| Wade–Giles: | êrh3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yíh | |
| Jyutping: | ji5 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ジ ji / ニ ni (on'yomi) みみ mimi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 이 i | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 耳字旁 ěrzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 耳/みみ mimi 耳偏/みみへん mimihen | |
| Hangul: | 귀 gwi | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
耳 is also the 124th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 耳 |
| 1 | 耴 |
| 2 | 耵 |
| 3 | 耶 耷 |
| 4 | 耸SC (=聳) 耹 耺 耻SC (=恥) 耼 (=聃) 耽 耾 耿 聀 (=職) 聁 聂SC (=聶) |
| 5 | 聃 聄 聅 聆 聇 聈 聉 聊 聋SC (=聾) 职SC (=職) 聍SC (=聹) |
| 6 | 聎 聏 聐 聑 聒 聓 (=婿 -> 女) 联SC (=聯) 聠 |
| 7 | 聕 聖 聗 聘 |
| 8 | 聙 聚 聛 聜 聝 聞 聟 聡JP (=聰) 聢 聣 |
| 9 | 聤 聥 聦 (=聰) 聧 聨 聩SC (=聵) 聪SC (=聰) 聫 (=聯) |
| 10 | 聬 聭 |
| 11 | 聯 聰 聱 聲 聳 |
| 12 | 聮 (=聯) 聴JP (=聽) 聵 聶 職 |
| 13 | 聸 |
| 14 | 聹 聺 聻 聼 (=聽) |
| 16 | 聽 聾 |
Sinogram
editIndependently it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]
See also
edit- Mimi (ミミ、耳、彌彌、美美) a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Further reading
edit- 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.
External links
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