Radical 128 or radical ear () meaning "ear" in English is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 124th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 SC (=聳) SC (=) (=聃) (=職) SC (=聶) +5 SC (=聾) SC (=職) SC (=聹) +6 (= -> 女) SC (=聯) +7 +8 JP (=聰) +9 (=聰) SC (=聵) SC (=聰) (=聯) +10 +11 +12 (=聯) JP (=聽) +13 +14 (=聽) +16
Sinogram Independently it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.
See also
a Japanese morpheme sometimes written with the character
References
Further reading
External links
Unihan Database - U+8033