耳
Radical 128 (U+2F7F)
耳 (U+8033) "ear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:ěr
Bopomofo:ㄦˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:eel
Wade–Giles:êrh3
Cantonese Yale:yíh
Jyutping:ji5
Japanese Kana:ジ ji / ニ ni (on'yomi)
みみ mimi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:이 i
Names
Chinese name(s):耳字旁 ěrzìpáng
Japanese name(s):耳/みみ mimi
耳偏/みみへん mimihen
Hangul:귀 gwi
Stroke order animation

Radical 128 or radical ear (耳部) meaning "ear" in English is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

耳 is also the 124th 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耳
+1耴
+2耵
+3耶 耷
+4耸SC (=聳) 耹 耺 耻SC (=恥) 耼 (=聃) 耽 耾 耿 聀 (=職) 聁 聂SC (=聶)
+5聃 聄 聅 聆 聇 聈 聉 聊 聋SC (=聾) 职SC (=職) 聍SC (=聹)
+6聎 聏 聐 聑 聒 聓 (=婿 -> 女) 联SC (=聯) 聠
+7聕 聖 聗 聘
+8聙 聚 聛 聜 聝 聞 聟 聡JP (=聰) 聢 聣
+9聤 聥 聦 (=聰) 聧 聨 聩SC (=聵) 聪SC (=聰) 聫 (=聯)
+10聬 聭
+11聯 聰 聱 聲 聳
+12聮 (=聯) 聴JP (=聽) 聵 聶 職
+13聸
+14聹 聺 聻 聼 (=聽)
+16聽 聾

Sinogram

Independently it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]

See Also

  • Mimi (ミミ、耳、彌彌、美美) a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character

References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.
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