漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
耳: ear
JLPT N36 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ジji · on'yomi · in compounds
- 耳鼻科じびかotolaryngology
みみmimi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 耳みみear
- 初耳はつみみheard for the first time
- 耳元みみもとclose to the ear
- 耳障りみみざわりhard (on the ears); offensive (to the ear)
- 耳よりみみよりwelcome (news); inviting; encouraging
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
An ear.
Source: Wiktionary, 耳 (rev. 93606014), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Listen closely to the whispers of the world! This character traces the delicate shape of the human ear.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · ěr
Same form: 耳 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 耳 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 耳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin ěr most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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