兩 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ふたつ。
  2. ひとそろい。一対。
  3. 二つとも。
  4. テール。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。音符「丙」を二つ並べた文字。「ふたつ」を意味する漢語{兩}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

old Japanese coin, both, counter for vehicles, two

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • リョウ
Kun (native)
  • ふたつ
Other languages
  • 拼音liang3
  • 한글ryang
  • Hán-ViệtLưỡng
  • Hán-ViệtLạng

Basics

Strokes
8 strokes
Radical
入(いる)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5169

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): overlapping ⿻丅⿵冂𠓜

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
4-8-1
Four Corner
1022.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a6.11
Nelson
44