耳

See also: 目

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms[edit]

When part of a compound character, particularly as the left radical, the bottom horizontal stroke may not cross at bottom right. This is a script variant, found for example in Japanese 聴.

Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形) – an ear. The opening of the ear becomes the surrounding box 口, the cartilage inside the ear yields the lines 二, while the earlobe becomes the lower right corner 十.


Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character[edit]

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Radical 128 耳

耳 (radical 128 耳+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸十 (SJ), four-corner 1040₀)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

KangXi: page 965, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28999
Dae Jaweon: page 1413, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2783, character 1
Unihan data for U+8033

Chinese[edit]

		-
simp. and trad.		耳

Etymology[edit]

The anatomical sense is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na.

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin

(Pinyin): ěr (er³)

(Zhuyin): ㄦˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁵
Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngí
Min Dong (BUC): ngê/ngī
Min Nan (POJ): hīⁿ / hī / ní
Wu (WT Romanisation): nyi (T3); hher (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: ěr
  - Zhuyin: ㄦˇ
  - Wade-Giles: êrh³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eel
  - IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji⁵
  - Yale: yíh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /jiː¹³/
Hakka
- Romanisations:
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngí
  - IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ɲi³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ngê/ngī
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɛi²⁴²/, /ŋi³³/
- Note: ngê - vernacular; ngī - literary.
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hīⁿ / hī / ní
  - Tâi-lô: hīnn / hī / ní
  - IPA (Taipei): /hĩ³³/, /hi³³/, /ni⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hĩ²²/, /hi²²/, /ni⁵³/
- Note: hīⁿ/hī - vernacular; ní - literary.
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - WT Romanisation: nyi (T3); hher (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /ȵi²³/, /ɦəɻ²³/
- Note: 3nyi - vernacular; 3hher - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (耳, reconstructed)
Character (耳), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 而止切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵɨ^X/	/ȵʑi^X/	/ȵiə^X/	/ȵɨ^X/	/ȵɨ^X/	/ȵʑĭə^X/	/ȵʑie^X/

Old Chinese pronunciation (耳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character		Modern Beijing (Pinyin)			Middle Chinese		Old Chinese			English
耳		ěr			‹ nyi^X ›		/*C.nəʔ/			ear
耳		ěr			‹ nyi^X ›		/*nəʔ/			=⽽而已 “that’s all”
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	No.		Phonetic component	Rime group		Rime subdivision		Corresponding MC rime	Old Chinese		Notes
耳	2783		耳	之		0		耳	/*njɯʔ/