Radical 7

二
Radical 7 (U+2F06)
二 (U+4E8C) "two"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	èr
Bopomofo:	ㄦˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	ell
Wade–Giles:	êrh4
Cantonese Yale:	yih
Jyutping:	ji6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	jī
Japanese Kana:	ニ ni (on'yomi) ふた(つ) futa(tsu) (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	이 i
Names
Hangul:	두 du
Stroke order animation

Radical 7 or radical two (二部) meaning "two" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Simplified Chinese dictionaries and some Hong Kong Traditional Chinese dictionaries, radical 7 (radical two) is merged with radical 1 (Radical one, 一).

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	二
+1	亍 于 亏
+2	云 互 亓 五 井 亖
+3	亗
+4	亚 亘 亙
+5	些 亜
+6	亝 亞 亟 㐩

Literature

• 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.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

See also

• Chinese numerals

External links

• Unihan Database - U+4E8C