字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE後1.27.4 合33431
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Time & Sequence
二
二 two
に ni
2 strokesRadical of 7 kanjiPart of 16
Your ink in 二0% painted · 0 of 7 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogram指事
Two parallel strokes. Duplication of 一 (“one”).
Built from 一 “one” + 一 “one”
Source: Wiktionary, 二 (rev. 94585217), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“One line above, one line below—a perfect pair! This radical is the foundation of balance and counting. When you see these two lines, think of a duo, a repetition, or the space between two boundaries. It brings the power of symmetry and the basic logic of pluralism to every character it touches.”
一覧
Every kanji with 二 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 7 kanji