èr
number two
A banker's 貝 two 二 with accents to prevent forgery
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ni[j]-s | nyijH | èr | two |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3894th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CB3 |
Shuowen | “貳，副益也。从貝，弍聲。弍，古文二。” |
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