而

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

而 (radical 126 而+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一月中中 (MBLL), four-corner 1022₇)

1. and
2. and then
3. and yet
4. but

References

• KangXi: page 961, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28871
• Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2810, character 1
• Unihan data for U+800C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

而 (Yale yi4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

而 (POJ yî, lû, Guangdong ji²; j² [Meixian], zi² [Hailu], ji², lu² [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim yi2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

而 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: じ (ji), に (ni)
• Kun: しこうして (shikōshite), しかして (shikashite), しかれども (shikaredomo)

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Korean

Hanja

而 (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

而 (pinyin ér (er2), Wade-Giles erh²)

Compounds

• 而且
• 而家
• 而后, 而後
• 而已
• 而今

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Middle Chinese

Han character

而 (*njiə)

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Vietnamese

Han character

而 (nhi)