| 而 | ||
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| 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 | |
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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.
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.