漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
乙: the latter, duplicate
Also: strange, witty, fishhook radical (no. 5)
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
オツotsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 乙おつ(the) second (party, rank, etc.); B (grade)
- 甲乙こうおつfirst and second; A and B
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 早乙女さおとめyoung female rice planter; young girl
Also read イツ, おと-, きのと, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Origin obscure.
Source: Wiktionary, 乙 (rev. 92736664), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Push through the barrier! Imagine a tiny sprout winding its way upward, bending and twisting to find the sun.”
Connections
Also read オツ
1 kanji shares this on'yomiAlso read イツ
3 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yǐ
Same form: 乙 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 乙 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 乙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yǐ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.