而

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

而 (radical 126 而+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一月中中 (MBLL), four-corner 1022₇)

1. and
2. and then
3. and yet
4. but

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 961, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28871
• Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2810, character 1
• Unihan data for U+800C

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

而 (Yale yi4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

而

[edit] Readings

• On: じ (ji), に (ni)
• Kun: しこうして (shikoushite), しかして (shikashite), しかれども (shikaredomo)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

而 (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

而 (pinyin ér (er2), Wade-Giles erh²)

[edit] Compounds

• 而且
• 而家

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

而 (*njiə)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

而 (nhi)