貳

See also: 二, and 贰

貳	U+8CB3, 貳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CB3

← 貲
[U+8CB2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

貴 →
[U+8CB4]

Translingual

Traditional	貳
Shinjitai	弐
Simplified	贰

Han character

貳 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈心一一金 (IPMMC), four-corner 4380₀, composition ⿹弍貝 or ⿹弋⿱二貝)

Derived characters

㒃, 𠽬, 𢄽, 㦐, 𢴧, 𭲘, 膩(腻), 樲(𬃘), 㹑, 𧸐, 𬥠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1206, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36703
Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3629, character 2
Unihan data for U+8CB3

Chinese

trad.		貳
simp.		贰
2nd round simp.		弍
alternative forms		貮𢎐𠍎弐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 貳
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (二) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
膩	*nis
二	*njis
弍	*njis
貳	*njis
樲	*njis

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njis) : semantic 貝 + phonetic 弍 (OC *njis, “two”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): èr (er⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄦˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngi
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): jī / lī / gī
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶gni

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: èr
  - Zhuyin: ㄦˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: èr
  - Wade–Giles: êrh⁴
  - Yale: èr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ell
  - Palladius: эр (er)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ji⁶
  - Yale: yih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ŋi⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan, Sanxia, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī
  - Tâi-lô: jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ji
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi²²/
  - IPA (Tainan, Yilan): /d͡zi³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Lukang, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī
  - Tâi-lô: lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: li
  - IPA (Taipei): /li³³/
  - IPA (Lukang): /li³¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kinmen): /li²²/
- (Hokkien: Taichung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gī
  - Tâi-lô: gī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: gi
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶gni
  - MiniDict: nyi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nyi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲi²³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 貳 (貳心)
Mandarin	Beijing	/əɻ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɚ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/əɻ⁵³/
	Jinan	/əɻ²¹/
	Qingdao	/əɻ⁴²/ /ɭə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ɭ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/əɻ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ɛ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/əɻ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɯ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɚ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ɯ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/əɻ¹³/
	Guiyang	/ɚ²¹³/
	Kunming	/ə²¹²/
	Nanjing	/əɻ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/a⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/əɻ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/əɻ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/aɻ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵi²³/ /əl²³/
	Suzhou	/əl³¹/
	Hangzhou	/əl⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ŋ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/ɛ²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/n̩¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ə⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/e²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɵ²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋi⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/ŋi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/ji²²/
	Nanning	/ji²²/
	Hong Kong	/ji²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/li²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ni⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/zi³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/no³³/ 訓兩

Middle Chinese: nyijH

Rime
Character	貳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	而至切
Baxter	nyijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵi^H/
Li Rong	/ȵi^H/
Wang Li	/ȵʑi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	èr
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ni[j]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*njis/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	èr
Middle Chinese	‹ nyij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ni[j]-s/
English	two
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	貳
Reading #	1/1
No.	2826
Phonetic component	二
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	二
Old Chinese	/*njis/

Definitions

貳

(Classical) secondary; assistant
(literary, or in compounds) to be unfaithful; to be disloyal
- 事君而不貳兮，迷不知寵之門。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  事君而不贰兮，迷不知宠之门。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Chu Ci
  Shì jūn ér bù èr xī, mí bù zhī chǒng zhī mén. [Pinyin]
  I serve you, and have never been disloyal; I am puzzled, and have no idea of the gateway to being favoured.
- 那裡還敢發生什麼貳心。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  那里还敢发生什么贰心。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  From: Lu Xun, Er Xin Ji, 1931
  Nǎlǐ hái gǎn fāshēng shénme èrxīn. [Pinyin]
  How would I dare develop an intention of defection?
(financial) Alternative form of 二 (èr, “two”)

Synonyms

(to be disloyal):

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出賣／出卖 (chūmài)
反逆 (fǎnnì)
叛逆 (pànnì)
背叛 (bèipàn)
變節／变节 (biànjié)

Compounds

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “贰”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

Japanese

Shinjitai	弐
Kyūjitai	貳

Kanji

貳

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弐)

Kyūjitai form of 弐

Readings

Go-on: に (ni)
Kan-on: じ (ji)
Kun: ふたつ (futatsu, 貳つ)、そえ (soe, 貳)

Korean

Hanja

貳 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貳: Hán Nôm readings: nhị, nhì, nhẹ

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Chinese numbers
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	10²	10³	10⁴	10⁶	10⁸	10¹²
Normal (小寫／小写)	〇, 零, 空	一, 蜀	二, 兩／两	三	四	五	六	七	八	九	十	百	千	萬／万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)	百萬／百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines)	億／亿	兆 (Taiwan) 萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial (大寫／大写)	零	壹	貳／贰	參／叁	肆	伍	陸／陆	柒	捌	玖	拾	佰	仟	萬／万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)	百萬／百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines)	億／亿	兆 (Taiwan) 萬億／万亿 (Mainland China)