Radical 10 Explained

Uni:513F
Meaning:legs
Pny:ér (SC), rén
Bopo:ㄦˊ (SC), ㄖㄣˊ
Gr:erl (SC), ren
Wade:êrh2 (SC), jên2
Jyutping:jan4
Yale:yàhn
Poj:
Cn:兒字底/儿字底 érzìdǐ
Onyomi:ジン jin / ニン nin
Jp:人繞/にんにょう ninnyō
人足/ひとあしhitoashi
Hang:어진사람 eojinsalam
Hanja:인 in

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 .

Derived characters

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

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 It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically. 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use.

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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.