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耳

耳

See also: 目

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese stroke order
Stroke order

Alternative forms

When part of a compound character, particularly as the left radical, the bottom horizontal stroke may not cross at bottom right. This is a script variant, found for example in Japanese 聴.

Han character

耳 (radical 128 耳+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸十 (SJ), four-corner 10400)

  1. Kangxi radical #128, ⽿ ‎(“ear”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 965, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28999
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1413, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2783, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8033

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 耳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 耳
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (耳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
佴 *nɯːs, *njɯs
麛 *miː
弭 *mniʔ
渳 *mniʔ
葞 *mniʔ
髶 *njis, *njoŋ
聻 *nɯʔ
恥 *n̥ʰɯʔ
咡 *njɯ, *njɯs
誀 *njɯ, *njɯs
耳 *njɯʔ
洱 *njɯʔ, *njɯs
駬 *njɯʔ
餌 *njɯs
珥 *njɯs
衈 *njɯs
毦 *njɯs
刵 *njɯs
眲 *njɯs, *rnɯːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – an ear. The opening of the ear becomes the surrounding box 口, the cartilage inside the ear yields the lines 二, while the earlobe becomes the lower right corner 十.

Etymology

The anatomical sense is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 耳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而止切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiəX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ěr
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 耳 耳
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ěr ěr
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyiX › ‹ nyiX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.nəʔ/ /*nəʔ/
English ear =⽽而已 “that’s all”

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 耳
Reading # 1/1
No. 2783
Phonetic
component		 耳
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 耳
Old
Chinese		 /*njɯʔ/

Definitions

耳

  1. ear
    ⇒ 耳朵
  2. †ear-like object
  3. † an object, which like the ears, is found on both sides
    • 耳房
    • 耳門／耳门
  4. †handle; knob
  5. † to hear; to hear of
  6. † (→ 而 (ér)) (phrase-final particle) merely; only, that's all

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

耳

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
耳
みみ
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

耳 ‎(hiragana みみ, romaji mimi)

  1. ear; ears
    耳 (みみ)が痒 (かゆ)いのです。
    Mimi ga kayui no desu.
    My ear is itchy.
  2. crust (of bread)

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

耳 • ‎(i)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 이 (McCune-Reischauer: i, Yale: i)
  • Name (hangeul): 귀()
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Okinawan

Kanji

耳

Compounds

  • 耳ぐい ‎(みみぐい, mimigui, “cloud ear fungus”)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 耳 ‎(mimi).

Noun

耳 ‎(hiragana みん, romaji min)

  1. ear

Vietnamese

Han character

耳 (nhĩ, nhải, nhãi)

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