Character Details
| two; a couple of | Ascii: — | w68 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 两 | liǎng | lee:ahng | 3 | 一 (horizontal) + 冂 (open box) + 丨 (vertical) → two; both | 两 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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We can see dos (Spanish for 'two') people wrapped in a belt. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - We need two tickets | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 31 - 一 | yī | ONE | one, horizontal line | single horizontal stroke | 一 丁 七 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 冂 (open box) + 丨 (vertical) → two; both | 冂 (semantic: enclosure) | 両 (phonetic) | phonetic from 両 | ||||||||