Meaning & readings
two, two radical (no. 7)
On’yomi ニ、ジ
Kun’yomi ふた、ふた.つ、ふたたび
Nanori おと、つぐ、つぎ、にい、は、ふ、ふたつ、ふだ、わ
Origin
This character is simply a picture of the number two: two horizontal lines stacked on top of each other. Just as one horizontal line (一) represents the number one, two lines represent two. It's one of the oldest and most straightforward kanji, directly picturing the concept through its visual form rather than through any complicated meaning combination.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (二).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 2
- Kangxi radical
- 7
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #9 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+04E8C