二
two; two radical (no. 7)
2 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 9.
Readings
- ニ (on reading): 二塁手 (にるいしゅ) second baseman; 二酸化炭素 (にさんかたんそ) carbon dioxide
- ふた (kun reading): 二人 (ふたり) two persons; 二人組 (ふたりぐみ) twosome
- ジ (on reading): 二郎 (じろう) second son; 不二 (ふじ) being two sides of the same coin
- ふたつ (kun reading): 瓜二つ (うりふたつ) exactly alike (in appearance); 真っ二つ (まっぷたつ) two equal parts
- ふたたび (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old; 週休二日制 (しゅうきゅうふつかせい) five-day workweek system; 二十日鼠 (はつかねずみ) house mouse (Mus musculus)
Components
- 二 radical two
Kanji containing 二
- 五 five
- 発 departure
- 表 surface
- 元 beginning
- 半 half
- 井 well
- 互 mutually
- 斉 adjusted
- 仁 humanity
- 亜 Asia
- 那 what?
- 亘 span
- 拳 fist
- 皐 swamp
- 脊 stature
- 犀 rhinoceros
- 于 going
- 云 say
- 弍 two
- 夸 boast
- 弐 II
- 乕 tiger
- 佞 flattery
- 些 a little bit
- 亞 rank
- 亟 fast
- 劵 become fatigued
- 卷 volume
- 竺 bamboo
- 咢 outspokenly
- 晉 advance
- 眷 look around
- 豢 raising domestic animals
- 齊 alike
- 縢 cross-stitch
- 舉 raise
- 虧 wane (moon)
- 壞 demolition
- 懷 pocket
- 屬 genus
Words using 二
- 二塁手 (にるいしゅ) second baseman
- 二酸化炭素 (にさんかたんそ) carbon dioxide
- 二塁打 (にるいだ) two-base hit
- 二次元 (にじげん) two dimensions
- 中二病 (ちゅうにびょう) behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious
- 二人 (ふたり) two persons
- 二人組 (ふたりぐみ) twosome
- 二股 (ふたまた) seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time
- 二人目 (ふたりめ) second person
- 二手 (ふたて) two groups
- 二郎 (じろう) second son
- 不二 (ふじ) being two sides of the same coin
- 不二家 (ふじや) Fujiya (Japanese confectionary maker)
- カイ二乗分布 (カイじじょうぶんぷ) chi-square distribution
- カイ二乗検定 (カイじじょうけんてい) chi-square test
- 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old
- 週休二日制 (しゅうきゅうふつかせい) five-day workweek system
- 二十日鼠 (はつかねずみ) house mouse (Mus musculus)
- 十重二十重 (とえはたえ) multitude
- 二十重 (はたえ) many-fold
- 瓜二つ (うりふたつ) exactly alike (in appearance)
- 真っ二つ (まっぷたつ) two equal parts
- 真っ二つに (まっぷたつに) right in half
- 真二つに (まふたつに) right in half
- 二つ (ふたつ) two
- 二盃口 (リャンペーコー) winning hand composed of two sets of two identical chows plus a pair
- 二翻役 (リャンファンヤク) winning hand with the score doubled twice
- 二十歳 (はたとせ) twenty years
- 三二年テーゼ (さんじゅうにねんテーゼ) 1932 Theses (Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems)
- 二鍋頭 (アルコード) erguotou
819 words in all.