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Translingual

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(radical 154 +5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈心一一金 (IPMMC), four-corner 43800)

  1. number two

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.
simp.
alt. forms 𢎐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nis
*njis
*njis
*njis
*njis

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njis) :  +  (two).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2826
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njis/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. two

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(i) (hangeul , revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhị, nhì, nhẹ)

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