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而 (U+800C) "and, but" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | ér | |
Bopomofo: | ㄦˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | erh2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | yi4 | |
Jyutping: | ji4 | |
Japanese Kana: | ジ ji /guitar ニ (on'yomi) しこう-して shikō-shite / しか-して shika-shite / なんじ nanji (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 이 i | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | しこうして shikōshite しかして shikashite | |
Hangul: | 말 이을 mal ieul | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 126 or radical and (而部) meaning "and" or "but" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
而 is also the 127 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 而 |
+3 | 耍 耎 耏 耐 耑 |
Further reading
- 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.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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