Radical 7

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

二
← 6 Radical 7 (U+2F06) 8 →
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
Hán-Việt:	nhị
Names
Hangul:	두 du
Stroke order animation

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