Radical 126

For the two stroke radical again 又, see Radical 29. For the three stroke radical bristle 彡, see Radical 59.

Radical 126 or radical and (而部) meaning "and" or "but" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

而
← 125 Radical 126 (U+2F7D) 127 →
而 (U+800C) "and, but"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	ér
Bopomofo:	ㄦˊ
Wade–Giles:	erh2
Cantonese Yale:	yi4
Jyutping:	ji4
Japanese Kana:	ジ ji /guitar ニ (on'yomi) しこう-して shikō-shite / しか-して shika-shite / なんじ nanji (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	이 i
Names
Japanese name(s):	しこうして shikōshite しかして shikashite
Hangul:	말 이을 mal ieul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

而 is also the 127 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	而
+3	耍 耎 耏 耐 耑

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.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+800C