耳

See also 目

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

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 聴.

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.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

耳 (radical 128 耳+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

• Index:Chinese radical/耳
• 取 茸 恥 餌 (饵)

See also

• 目 敢

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

耳 (Yale yi5)

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Japanese

Noun

耳 (hiragana みみ, romaji mimi)

1. an ear; ears

   耳がかゆいのです。

   みみがかゆいのです。

   Mimi ga kayui no desu.

   My ear is itchy.

2. of bread, the crust

Kanji

耳 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じ (ji), じょう (jō)
• Kun: みみ (mimi), のみ (nomi)

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Korean

Hanja

耳
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 귀()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

耳 (pinyin ěr (er3), Wade-Giles erh³)

Compounds

• 木耳

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Middle Chinese

Han character

耳 (*njiə̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

耳 (nhĩ, nhải, nhãi)