Radical 128 or radical ear (耳部) 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.

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

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2
+3耶 耷
+4耸SC (=聳) 耹 耺 耻SC (=恥) 耼 (=聃) 耽 耾 耿 聀 (=職) 聁 聂SC (=聶)
+5聃 聄 聅 聆 聇 聈 聉 聊 聋SC (=聾) 职SC (=職) 聍SC (=聹)
+6聎 聏 聐 聑 聒 聓 (=婿 -> ) 联SC (=聯) 聠
+7聕 聖 聗 聘
+8聙 聚 聛 聜 聝 聞 聟 聡JP (=聰) 聢 聣
+9聤 聥 聦 (=聰) 聧 聨 聩SC (=聵) 聪SC (=聰) 聫 (=聯)
+10聬 聭
+11聯 聰 聱 聲 聳
+12聮 (=聯) 聴JP (=聽) 聵 聶 職
+13
+14聹 聺 聻 聼 (=聽)
+16聽 聾

Sinogram

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

See also

  • Mimi[ja](ミミ、耳、彌彌、美美) a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character

Further reading

  • 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.

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