Radical 10

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.

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 is the simplified form of ér. However, the meaning of as a radical is irrelevant to .

Evolution

兒/児/儿

光火 (“fire”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”); compare 見 and 頁.

Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +1 +2 (= -> 竹) +3 +4 (=) SC (= -> 土) +5 JP/variant (=兔) (= -> 長) JP (=兒) SC/HK (=兌) +6 SC/variant (=兗) +7 +8 (also SC/JP form of -> 黑) +9 +10 +11 +12 +14 +18 GB TC variant +19 Traditional variant

Sinogram The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically . 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use.

Radical 10

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