Radical 7
Chinese character radical
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Radical 7 or radical two (二部) meaning "two" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
| 二 | |
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Radical 7 (U+2F06)
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| 二 (U+4E8C) "two" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | èr |
| Bopomofo: | ㄦˋ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | ell |
| Wade–Giles: | êrh4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | yih |
| Jyutping: | ji6 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | jī |
| Japanese Kana: | ニ ni (on'yomi) ふた(つ) futa(tsu) (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 이 i |
| Hán-Việt: | nhị |
| Names | |
| Hangul: | 두 du |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
In Simplified Chinese dictionaries and some Hong Kong Traditional Chinese dictionaries, radical 7 (radical two) is merged with radical 1 (Radical one, 一).
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Literature
- 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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
See also
External links
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