Radical 10

儿
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儿 (U+513F) "legs"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	ér (SC), rén
Bopomofo:	ㄦˊ (SC), ㄖㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	erl (SC), ren
Wade–Giles:	êrh2 (SC), jên2
Cantonese Yale:	yàhn
Jyutping:	jan4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	jî
Japanese Kana:	ジン jin / ニン nin (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	인 in
Names
Chinese name(s):	兒字底/儿字底 érzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	人繞/にんにょう ninnyō 人足/ひとあしhitoashi
Hangul:	어진사람 eojinsalam
Stroke order animation

Radical 10 or radical legs (儿部) meaning "legs" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 52 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

儿 is also the 14th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this radical is commonly pronounced ér among Simplified Chinese users as 儿 is the simplified form of 兒 ér. However, the meaning of 儿 as a radical is irrelevant to 兒.

Evolution

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  Oracle bone script
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  Bronze script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	儿
+1	兀
+2	允 兂 (=簪 -> 竹) 元
+3	兄
+4	充 兆 兇 先 光 兊 (=兌) 尧SC (=堯 -> 土)
+5	克 兌 兎JP/variant (=兔) 兏 (=長 -> 長) 児JP (=兒) 兑SC/HK (=兌)
+6	免 兒 兓 兔 兕 兖SC/variant (=兗)
+7	兗 兘 兙
+8	党 (also SC/JP form of 黨 -> 黑) 兛
+9	兜 兝 兞
+10	兟 兠
+11	兡
+12	兢
+14	兣
+18	兤GB TC variant
+19	兤Traditional variant

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a 4th grade kanji^[1] It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically . 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use

References

Further reading

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

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