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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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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 .

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.

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

Han character [edit]

(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

Derived characters [edit]

See also [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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping ji5, Yale yi5)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ nyi2, Guangdong ngi3, Hagfa Pinyim ngi3)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Noun [edit]

(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

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

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

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin ěr (er3), Wade-Giles erh3)

Compounds [edit]


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*njiə̌)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(nhĩ, nhải, nhãi)