耳

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When part of a compound character, particularly as the left radical, the bottom horizontal stroke may not cross at bottom right. This is a script variant, found for example in Japanese 聴.

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Radical 128 耳

耳 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸十 (SJ), four-corner 1040₀)

1. Kangxi radical #128, ⽿.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/耳
• 佴, 咡, 𪣌, 㛅, 弭, 𢙘, 挕, 洱, 𬌯, 𫔾, 𭤶, 栮, 𣧹, 𣭞, 𪸥, 珥, 䏪, 𥙟, 眲, 𧙫, 䋙(䌺), 𧊗, 衈, 𥚅, 誀, 𬦮, 𨌀, 䣵, 鉺(铒), 𩊐, 餌(饵), 駬, 𬴿, 𮫸, 𪕔, 𨏄
• 刵, 取, 恥, 𫾬, 毦, 郰, 𨠧, 鵈, 咠, 𡱡, 茸, 𢩇, 斊, 𥥯, 𥹢, 䇯, 𮐘, 髶, 𩲽, 𬸽, 𫉻, 聾, 闻, 敢, 摂, 朂, 𢦀, 𤧬

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 965, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28999
• Dae Jaweon: page 1413, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2783, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8033

Historical forms of the character 耳
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – an ear.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na (“ear”).

耳

1. ear

   耳聾／耳聋  ―  ěrlóng  ―  deaf

2. ear-like object

   木耳  ―  mù'ěr  ―  wood ear; black fungus

3. something on both sides

   耳房  ―  ěrfáng  ―  penthouse

   耳門／耳门  ―  ěrmén  ―  side door

4. handle on both sides of an object

   • 鼎黃耳金鉉，利貞。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鼎黄耳金铉，利贞。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Dǐng huáng ěr jīnxuàn, lì zhēn.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

5. (obsolete) to hear; to hear of
6. a surname
7. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien, figurative) something that can be used to coerce or threaten someone

According to Pulleyblank (1995), a contraction of 而已 (OC *njɯ lɯʔ).

耳

1. (literary) Phrase-final particle: merely; only; that's all

   • 二三子，偃之言是也！前言戲之耳。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     二三子，偃之言是也！前言戏之耳。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Èrsānzǐ, Yǎn zhī yán shìyě! Qiányán xì zhī ěr.

     My disciples, Yan's words are right. What I said was only in sport.

• (merely): 而已 (éryǐ), 罷了／罢了 (bàliǎo)

耳

1. Only used in 耳孫／耳孙 (réngsūn).

• “耳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #2604”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “耳”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 263.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “耳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• Kun: みみ (mimi, 耳, Jōyō)、のみ (nomi, 耳)

• ⟨mi₁mi₁⟩ → */mimi/ → /mimi/

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[1] From Proto-Japonic *mimi.

• (Tokyo) みみ (Odaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

耳(みみ) • (mimi) 

1. ear; ears

   耳(みみ)が痒(かゆ)いのです。

   Mimi ga kayui no desu.

   My ear is itchy.

2. crust (of bread)
3. selvedge (woven edge of a bolt of fabric)

From Middle Chinese 耳 (MC nyiX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

耳

Wikisource

耳 (eumhun 귀 이 (gwi i))

1. hanja form^? of 이 (“ear”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: みん (min)、みみ (mimi)

• 耳(みみ)ぐい (mimigui, “cloud ear fungus”)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *mimi, from Proto-Japonic *mimi. Cognate with mainland Japanese 耳 (mimi).

耳(みん) (min) 

1. ear

耳: Hán Nôm readings: nhĩ, nhải, nhãi

1. chữ Hán form of nhĩ (“ear”).