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貳
貳
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 弐 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 贰 |
| Traditional | 貳 |
Han character
貳 (radical 154 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈心一一金 (IPMMC), four-corner 43800)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 1206, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36703
- Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3629, character 2
- Unihan data for U+8CB3
Chinese
| trad. | 貳 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 贰 | |
| alt. forms | 𢎐 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 貳
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (二) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 膩 | *nis |
| 二 | *njis |
| 弍 | *njis |
| 貳 | *njis |
| 樲 | *njis |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njis) : 貝 + 弍 (“two”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄦˋ
- Wade-Giles: êrh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ell
- IPA (key): /ˀɤɻ⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ji6
- Yale: yih
- Cantonese Pinyin: ji6
- IPA (key): /jiː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
- Hakka Romanization System: ngi
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngi4
- IPA: /ɲi⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 貳 (貳心) |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /əɻ⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /ɚ⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /əɻ⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /əɻ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao |
/əɻ⁴²/ /ɭə⁵⁵/ |
|
| Zhengzhou | /ɭ³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /əɻ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ɛ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /əɻ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɯ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ɚ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɯ³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /əɻ¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /ɚ²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /ə²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /əɻ⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /a⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /əɻ⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /əɻ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /aɻ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai |
/ȵi²³/ /əl²³/ |
| Suzhou | /əl³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /əl⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ŋ²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɛ²²/ |
| Tunxi | /n̩¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ə⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /e²¹/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ɵ²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ŋi⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /ŋi⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /ji²²/ |
| Nanning | /ji²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /ji²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /li²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /nɛi²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ni⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /zi³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /no³³/ 訓兩 |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 而至切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ȵiɪH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ȵiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ȵʑjɪH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ȵiH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ȵiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ȵʑiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ȵʑiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
èr |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2826 |
| Phonetic component |
二 |
| Rime group |
脂 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
二 |
| Old Chinese |
/*njis/ |
Definitions
貳
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Japanese
Kanji
貳
Readings
Korean
Hanja
貳 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)
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