Radical 5
Kangxi radical
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Radical 5 or radical second (乙部), meaning "second", is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the fewest strokes.
| 乙 | |
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Radical 5 (U+2F04)
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| 乙 (U+4E59) "second, fishing hook" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | yǐ |
| Bopomofo: | 一ˇ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | yii |
| Wade–Giles: | i3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | yut |
| Jyutping: | jyut3 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | it |
| Japanese Kana: | オツ otsu (on'yomi) きのと kinoto /おと oto (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 을 eul |
| Hán-Việt: | ất |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 乙 otsu 乙繞/おつにょう otsunyoū 釣り針/つりばり tsuribari (fishing hook) |
| Hangul: | 새 sae |
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In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 tiāngān).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
In mainland China, 乙 along with other 14 associated indexing components, including 乚, etc., are affiliated to a new radical 乛 (乛部), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.[1] Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are listed under radical 乛 in dictionary indexes.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
In the Unihan database, 亀 (Japanese simplified form of 龜) falls under Radical 5 + 10 strokes, while other variants of 龜 (including Simplified Chinese 龟) fall under Radical 213 (龜 "turtle"), causing an inconsistency. However, in most Japanese dictionaries, 亀 is treated as a variant of Radical 213 (龜) and indexed Radical 213 + 0 strokes.
Sinogram
As an independent character, it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji that is frequently used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[2] It is also used in the Chinese language.
It means "secondary" and is mainly used in compounds.
