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乙 (U+4E59) "second, fishing hook" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | yǐ | |||
Bopomofo: | 一ˇ | |||
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | yii | |||
Wade–Giles: | i3 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | yut | |||
Jyutping: | jyut3 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | it | |||
Japanese Kana: | オツ otsu (on'yomi) きのと kinoto /おと oto (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 을 eul | |||
Names | ||||
Japanese name(s): | 乙 otsu 乙繞/おつにょう otsunyoū 釣り針/つりばり tsuribari (fishing hook) | |||
Hangul: | 새 sae | |||
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Radical 5orradical second (乙部), meaning "second", is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the least amount of strokes.
In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 tiāngān).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Inmainland China, 乙 along with other 14 associated indexing components, including 乚, etc., are affiliated to a new radical 乛 (乛部), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.[1] Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are listed under radical 乛 in dictionary indexes.
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+0 | 乙 乚 乛Component only |
+1 | 乜 九 |
+2 | 乞 也 习SC (=習 -> 羽) |
+3 | 乢 乣 乤KO 乥KO |
+4 | 乧KO |
+5 | 乨 乩 乪 乫KO 乬KO 乭KO 乮KO 乯KO |
+6 | 乱 (SC/JP, =亂) 乲KO |
+7 | 乳 乴KO 乵KO 乶KO 乷KO 乸 |
+8 | 乹 乺KO 乻KO 乼KO 乽KO |
+10 | 乾 乿 亀JP (=龜 -> 龜) |
+11 | 亁 (=乾) |
+12 | 亂 亃 亄 |
In the Unihan Database, 亀 (Japanese simplified formof龜) falls under Radical 5 + 10 strokes, while other variants of 龜 (including Simplified Chinese 龟) fall under Radical 213 (龜 "turtle"), causing an inconsistency. However, in most Japanese dictionaries, 亀 is treated as a variant of Radical 213 (龜) and indexed Radical 213 + 0 strokes.
As an independent character it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[2] It is also used in the Chinese language.
It means "secondary" and is mainly used in compounds.
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See also: Kangxi radicals |
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. |