而
Radical 126 (U+2F7D)
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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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.
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