字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲3 (商)
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.
部首Radical · in Time & Sequence
乙
乙 the second, Z-shape
おつ otsu
1 strokeRadical of 8 kanjiPart of 9
Your ink in 乙0% painted · 0 of 8 familiar
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. This radical represents effort, potential, and the stage that follows the very first beginning. When you see this curve, think of a life force that is just starting to take shape, winding its way through the world.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates a secondary rank (second in a series), a budding state, a winding shape, or the concept of effort and potential growth.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 乙, with sourced origins
- 乾droughtカン · かわく
倝sound + 乙
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 乙 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 8 kanji