乙 | ||
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乙 (U+4E59) "second, fishing hook" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | yǐ | |
Bopomofo: | 一ˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | yii | |
Wade–Giles: | i3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | yut | |
Jyutping: | jyut3 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | it | |
Japanese Kana: | オツ otsu (on'yomi) きのと kinoto /おと oto (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 을 eul | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 乙 otsu 乙繞/おつにょう otsunyoū 釣り針/つりばり tsuribari (fishing hook) | |
Hangul: | 새 sae | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 5 or radical second (乙部), meaning "second", is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the least amount of strokes.
In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 tiāngān).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
In mainland China, 乙 along with other 14 associated indexing components, including 乚, etc., are affiliated to a new radical 乛 (乛部), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.[1] Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are listed under radical 乛 in dictionary indexes.