Radical 7

Chinese character radical
← 6 Radical 7 (U+2F06) 8 →
(U+4E8C) "two"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:èr
Bopomofo:ㄦˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:ell
Wade–Giles:êrh4
Cantonese Yale:yih
Jyutping:ji6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ニ ni (on'yomi)
ふた(つ) futa(tsu) (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:이 i
Names
Hangul:두 du
Stroke order animation

Radical 7 or radical two (二部) meaning "two" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Simplified Chinese dictionaries and some Hong Kong Traditional Chinese dictionaries, radical 7 (radical two) is merged with radical 1 (Radical one, ).

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+1 亍于亏
+2 云互亓五井亖
+3
+4 亚亘亙𠄦𠄧
5 些亜𠄩
+6 亝亞亟𠄯㐩
+7 𠄳
+8 𠄶
+9 𠄺
+10 𠄻
+11 𠄼𠄽

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

See also

External links

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See also: Kangxi radicals