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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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[edit] Alternative forms

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 .

[edit] Etymology

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.

耳 耳 耳 耳
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

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

  1. ear
  2. (archaic) merely; only (when placed at the end of a phrase)
  3. handle

[edit] Derived characters

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale yi5)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

(hiragana みみ, romaji mimi)

  1. an ear; ears
    がかゆいのです。
    みみがかゆいのです。
    Mimi ga kayui no desu.
    My ear is itchy.
  2. of bread, the crust

[edit] Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: i, McCune-Reischauer: i, Yale: i)
  • Name (hangeul): ()

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin ěr (er3), Wade-Giles erh3)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*njiə̌)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(nhĩ, nhải, nhãi)

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