The Chinese Radical: 乙




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Meaning
at second position    乙

Explanation Shows the number two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
book, letter, document
shū
This character was simplified from 書. It formerly showed a brush 聿 (hand with a pen 丨), which writes lines 一 on a paper 口.
With a brush in my hand I write the lines in the book.  
HSK 1
to practice, to study, habit

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


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

Top: plant 艹, below: at second position 乙 (Two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
Plants can at the second position also be seen as art.  
HSK 4
memory, to recollect, to remember

Left: feelings 忄, right: at second position 乙 (The number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
The feeling that comes after, in second place, is the memory.  
HSK 5
second in order: a,b,c


Shows the number two 二, written quickly, without lifting the pen.  
亿
HSK 5
100 million (=10^8)

Left: person 亻, (here: "1"), right: 乙 at second position 乙 (Number 'two' 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.) (If you continue the line of 乙 to the upper left, you get an eight 8)
A "one" with 8 zeros -> 100 million.  
HSK 6
to dig, to excavate, to scoop out

Left: hand 扌, right: 穵 (hole 穴, second 乙 [The number 'two' 二 written quickly, without lifting the pen.])
By hand the hole is made by the two of us: by digging.  
HSK 6
to beg

Top: lying person as a person 人 that is horizontal, below: at 2nd position 乙 (two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
There lies a disadvantaged person (= from the second 乙 class of the society): a beggar.  
no HSK
warming principle of the sun, trad. form of dry 干
gān, qián
Left: 倝 sunrise (sun 日 rises between plants 艹) [sunset is: 莫], right: horizontal person , 2nd 乙 (two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen)
At sunrise, the horizontal person feels at second position the warming sun.  

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