而 — 6 strokes / Radical「而」
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- On
- ジ・ニじ・に · ji · ni
- Kun
- しこ.うして・しか.して・しか.も・しか.れども・すなわち・なんじ・しかるにshiko.ushite · shika.shite · shika.mo · shika.redomo · sunawachi · nanji · shikaruni
- Meaning
- and yet; and then
Stroke order
Origin
A pictograph of a beard, borrowed as the particle linking clauses.
Compounds
- 而立じりつ
age thirty
- 形而上けいじじょう
metaphysical
Example
形而上の問題を長く論じ合った。
We debated metaphysical questions at length.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
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