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Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radical 10 or radical legs (儿部) meaning "legs" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
儿 | ||
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儿 (U+513F) "legs" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | ér (SC), rén | |
Bopomofo: | ㄦˊ (SC), ㄖㄣˊ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | erl (SC), ren | |
Wade–Giles: | êrh2 (SC), jên2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | yàhn | |
Jyutping: | jan4 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | jî | |
Japanese Kana: | ジン jin / ニン nin (on'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 인 in | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 兒字底/儿字底 érzìdǐ | |
Japanese name(s): | 人繞/にんにょう ninnyō 人足/ひとあしhitoashi | |
Hangul: | 어진사람 eojinsalam | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 52 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
儿 is also the 14th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this radical is commonly pronounced ér among Simplified Chinese users as 儿 is the simplified form of 兒 ér. However, the meaning of 儿 as a radical is irrelevant to 兒.
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a 4th grade kanji[1] It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically . 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use.
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