Radical 128

耳
Radical 128 (U+2F7F)
耳 (U+8033) "ear"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	ěr
Bopomofo:	ㄦˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	eel
Wade–Giles:	êrh^3
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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+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 [ja] (ミミ、耳、彌彌、美美) a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character

References

1. "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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8033