Radical 10

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(U+513F) "legs"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:ér (SC), rén
Bopomofo:ㄦˊ (SC), ㄖㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:erl (SC), ren
Wade–Giles:êrh2 (SC), jên2
Cantonese Yale:yàhn
Jyutping:jan4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ジン jin / ニン nin (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:인 in
Names
Chinese name(s):兒字底/儿字底 érzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):人繞/にんにょう ninnyō
人足/ひとあしhitoashi
Hangul:어진사람 eojinsalam
Stroke order animation
Radical legs as in the character "elder brother"

Radical 10 or radical legs (儿部) meaning "legs" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 52 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 14th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this radical is commonly pronounced ér among Simplified Chinese users as is the simplified form of ér. However, the meaning of as a radical is irrelevant to .

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2 (= -> )
+3
+4 (=) SC (= -> )
+5 JP/variant (=兔) (= -> ) JP (=兒) SC/HK (=兌)
+6 SC/variant (=兗)
+7
+8 (also SC/JP form of -> )
+9
+10
+11
+12
+14
+18 GB TC variant
+19 Traditional variant

Sinogram

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a 4th grade kanji[1] It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically . 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use.

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

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  • 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
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