Radical 128 Explained

Uni:	8033
Meaning:	ear
Pny:	ěr
Bopo:	ㄦˇ
Gr:	eel
Wade:	êrh^3
Jyutping:	ji5
Yale:	yíh
Cn:	耳字旁 ěrzìpáng
Onyomi:	ジ ji / ニ ni
Kunyomi:	みみ mimi
Jp:	耳/みみ mimi 耳偏/みみへん mimihen
Hang:	귀 gwi
Hanja:	이 i

Radical 128 or radical ear meaning "ear" in English is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 124th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4	^SC (=聳) ^SC (=) (=聃) (=職) ^SC (=聶)
+5	^SC (=聾) ^SC (=職) ^SC (=聹)
+6	(= -> 女) ^SC (=聯)
+7
+8	^JP (=聰)
+9	(=聰) ^SC (=聵) ^SC (=聰) (=聯)
+10
+11
+12	(=聯) ^JP (=聽)
+13
+14	(=聽)
+16

Sinogram

Independently it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji

See also

• a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character

Further reading

• Book: Fazzioli, Edoardo . calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko . Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters . 1987 . . New York . 0-89659-774-1 .

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8033

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.