The Chinese Radical: 乙


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Meaning
at second position    乙

Explanation Shows the number two written quickly without lifting the pen.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
book, letter, document
shū
Simplified variante of book 書 or writing (A hand with pen writes two lines )
With the brush in the hand I write two lines of a book.
JLPT HSK 1
to practice, to study, habit

Shows half of feathers/wings
With only half wings, you especially have to practice.
JLPT HSK 2
also, too


Shows a twisting creature, like a snake or scorpion.
JLPT HSK 4
art, skills, talent, craft

Top: plant , below: at second position (Two written quickly without lifting the pen.)
Plants can at the second position also be seen as art.
JLPT HSK 4
memory, to recollect, to remember

Left: feelings , right: at second position (The number 'two' written quickly without lifting the pen.)
The feeling that comes after, in second place, is the memory.
JLPT HSK 5
second in order: a,b,c


Shows the number two , written quickly, without lifting the pen.
亿
JLPT HSK 5
100 million (=10^8)

Left: person , (here: "1"), right: at second position (Number 'two' written quickly without lifting the pen.) (If you continue the line of to the upper left, you get an eight 8)
A "one" with 8 zeros -> 100 million.
JLPT HSK 6
to dig, to excavate, to scoop out

Left: hand , right: 穵 (hole , second [Thenumber 'two' written quickly, without lifting the pen.])
By hand the hole is made by the two of us: by digging.
JLPT HSK 6
to beg

Top: lying person as a person that is horizontal, below: at 2nd position (two written quickly without lifting the pen.)
There lies a disadvantaged person (= from the second class of the society): a beggar.
JLPT no HSK
warming principle of the sun, trad. form of dry 干
gān, qián
Left: 倝 sunrise (sun rises between plants ) [sunset is: ], right: horizontal person , 2nd (two written quickly without lifting the pen)
At sunrise, the horizontal person feels at second position the warming sun.

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.

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