二

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See also: ニ (katakana), 貳, 贰, 弍, 𠄞, 𠄟, and 𠄠
二 U+4E8C, 二
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E8C
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Translingual

Stroke order
2 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 7 二

二 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一一 (MM), four-corner 10100, composition ⿱一一)

  1. Kangxi radical #7, ⼆.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №479

Derived characters

Further reading

Chinese Wikisource has digitized text of the Kangxi Dictionary entry for 二:
[[wikisource:zh:康熙字典/二部/二部#二|二部/二部]]

Wikisource


  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 86, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 247
  • Dae Jaweon: page 175, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 2, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4E8C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 二
alternative forms 貳／贰 financial
弍
𠄠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 二
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming) Libian (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts Clerical script
Oracle bone script

j28182

j28183

j28184

j28185

j28186

j28187

j28188

j28189

j28190

j28191

j28192

j28193

j28194

j28195

j28196

j28197

j28198

j28199

Bronze inscriptions

b18613

b18614

b18615

b18616

b18617

b18618

b18619

b18620

b18621

b18622

b18623

b18624

b18625

b18626

b18627

b18628

b18629

b18630

b18631

b18632

b18633

Small seal script

s10124

Transcribed ancient scripts

L19175

L19176

L19177

L19178

L19179

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (二) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
膩 *nis
二 *njis
弍 *njis
貳 *njis
樲 *njis

Ideogram (指事) - two parallel lines. Compare with 一, one line meaning one, 三, three lines meaning three, and 亖 (sì), four lines meaning four. Duplication of 一 (“one”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognate to Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Tangut 𗍫 (*njɨ̱¹), Burmese နှစ် (hnac), and Nuosu ꑍ (nyip).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 二
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而至切
Baxter nyijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵiH/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiH/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		èr
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ji6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 二
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		èr
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ni[j]-s/
English two

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 二
Reading # 1/1
No. 2824
Phonetic
component 		二
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		二
Old
Chinese 		/*njis/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 二

  1. two
  2. second
  3. † secondary, vice-
  4. † again, once more
  5. † two-fold, double
  6. † fold, times
  7. † different; other, else
  8. Short for "twenty, two hundred or two thousand" after hundreds, thousands and ten thousands.
  9. Short for "twenty cents".
  10. (dialectal Mandarin) stupid, dumb; silly, thick, lacking mental agility (often in a cute way)

Usage notes

See 兩 - Usage notes.

Synonyms

  • (used in counting) 兩／两 (liǎng)

Compounds

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Descendants

Sino-Xenic (二):
  • → Japanese: 二(に) (ni)
  • → Korean: 이(二) (i)
  • → Vietnamese: nhị (二)

Others:

See also

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 106 108 1012
Normal
(小寫／小写) 		〇, 零, 空 一, 蜀 二, 兩／两 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬／万,
十千 (Malaysia, Singapore) 		百萬／百万,
桶(Philippines),
面桶 (Philippines) 		億／亿 兆 (Taiwan)
萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial
(大寫／大写) 		零 壹 貳／贰 參／叁 肆 伍 陸／陆 柒 捌 玖 拾 佰 仟
Playing cards in Mandarin · 撲克牌／扑克牌 (pūkèpái) (layout · text)
尖兒／尖儿 (jiānr) 二 (èr) 三 (sān) 四 (sì) 五 (wǔ) 六 (liù) 七 (qī)
八 (bā) 九 (jiǔ) 十 (shí) 鉤兒／钩儿 (gōur) 圈兒／圈儿 (quānr), 皮蛋 (pídàn, regional) K 小王 (xiǎowáng, black), 大王 (red),
小鬼 (xiǎoguǐ, black), 大鬼 (dàguǐ, red)

(deprecated template usage)

Japanese

Kanji

二

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Alternative forms

  • 弐 (financial or formal)

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
二
に
Grade: 1
on’yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 二 (MC nyijH, “two”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

二(に) • (ni) 

  1. two, 2
  2. second
    二(に)兎(と)を追(お)う者(もの)は一兎(いっと)をも得(え)ず
    nito o ou mono wa itto o mo ezu
    focus on one thing at a time
    二(に)の足(あし)を踏(ふ)む
    ni no ashi o fumu
    hesitate; think twice; shy or flinch
    二(に)階(かい)から目(め)薬(ぐすり)
    nikai kara megusuri
    trying to do an impossible task (lit. taking eye medicine from the second floor)

Numeral

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : 二

二(に) • (ni) 

  1. two, 2

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
二
ふた
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Originally /huta/: *[puta] > [ɸuta]. The Ablaut form of 一 (hito2, “one”), which it doubles.

Noun

二(ふた) • (futa) 

  1. two

Coordinate terms

Japanese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Regular 零(れい) (rei)
零(ゼロ) (zero) 		一(いち) (ichi) 二(に) (ni) 三(さん) (san) 四(よん) (yon)
四(し) (shi) 		五(ご) (go) 六(ろく) (roku) 七(なな) (nana)
七(しち) (shichi) 		八(はち) (hachi) 九(きゅう) (kyū)
九(く) (ku) 		十(じゅう) (jū)
Formal 壱(いち) (ichi) 弐(に) (ni) 参(さん) (san) 拾(じゅう) (jū)
90 100 300 600 800 1,000 3,000 8,000 10,000 100,000,000
Regular 九(きゅう)十(じゅう) (kyūjū) 百(ひゃく) (hyaku)
一(いっ)百(ぴゃく) (ippyaku) 		三(さん)百(びゃく) (sanbyaku) 六(ろっ)百(ぴゃく) (roppyaku) 八(はっ)百(ぴゃく) (happyaku) 千(せん) (sen)
一(いっ)千(せん) (issen) 		三(さん)千(ぜん) (sanzen) 八(はっ)千(せん) (hassen) 一(いち)万(まん) (ichiman) 一(いち)億(おく) (ichioku)
Formal 一(いち)萬(まん) (ichiman)
1012 8×1012 1013 1016 6×1016 8×1016 1017 1018
一(いっ)兆(ちょう) (itchō) 八(はっ)兆(ちょう) (hatchō) 十(じゅっ)兆(ちょう) (jutchō) 一(いっ)京(けい) (ikkei) 六(ろっ)京(けい) (rokkei) 八(はっ)京(けい) (hakkei) 十(じゅっ)京(けい) (jukkei) 百(ひゃっ)京(けい) (hyakkei)

References


Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 二 (MC nyijH). Recorded as Middle Korean ᅀᅵ (zi) (Yale: zi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

二 (eumhun 두 이 (du i))

  1. Hanja form? of 이 (“two”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

二: Hán Việt readings: nhị[1][2][3]
二: Nôm readings: nhì[1][2][3], nhị[2][3][4], nhẹ[1]

  1. Template:han tu form of
  2. Template:Nom form of

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Trần (2004).
  4. ^ Hồ (1976).

Zhuang

Numeral

二

  1. Sawndip form of ngeih

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