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.

← 127 Radical 128 (U+2F7F) 129 →
(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

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

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

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4 SC (=聳) SC (=) (=聃) (=職) SC (=聶)
+5 SC (=聾) SC (=職) SC (=聹)
+6 (=婿 -> ) SC (=聯)
+7
+8 JP (=聰)
+9 (=聰) SC (=聵) SC (=聰) (=聯)
+10
+11
+12 (=聯) JP (=聽)
+13
+14 (=聽)
+16

Sinogram

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "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

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  • 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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