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Kanji Detail for 乙 - "second rank, stylish"

乙

  • Meaning

    乙 means "second rank, stylish." Also associated with lower tone.

    1. Stylish - Chic; clever; tasteful.

    2. Second rank - Second in order; second place.

    3. Lower tone - A tone one level lower than the primary in traditional music.

    4. Second stem - The second of the ten celestial stems.

    5. Wood, East - In five elements it's wood; in direction it's east.

  • Words using 乙

    • 早乙女 さおとめ Listen young female rice planter; young girl

  • Name readings of 乙

    Given names 乙(いつ)Listen 乙(おつ)Listen 乙(おっと)Listen 乙(おと)Listen 乙(おとめ)Listen 乙(きのと)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    the latter; duplicate; strange; witty; fishhook radical (no. 5)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    second; 2nd heavenly stem

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; second in order; letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]); ethyl; bent; winding; radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5); ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    second; 2nd heavenly stem

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The second position of the Ten Heavenly Stems. | When reading, marking one's stopping place with a brush is called 乙. When characters are missing, hooking beside and adding them is also called 乙.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    itsu(イツ) イツ

    otsu(オツ) オツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kinoto(きのと) きのと

    oto(おと) おと

  • Strokes

    tip

    1 stroke

  • Radical

    tip

    乙 乚 (otsu・otsunyo・tsuribari)

  • Related Keywords

    stylish second rank lower tone second chic elegant graceful refined sophisticated quaint junior

Sentences including 乙

  • One man's medicine is another man's poison.

  • One man's gain is another man's loss.

  • One man's meat is another man's poison.

  • He makes young girls' hearts flutter.

  • Pfft! That's what you get for laughing at a girl!

  • Lady Otohime gave Urashima Taro a beautiful Tamate-box.

  • Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens are.

  • Tom couldn't hide his nervousness at being surrounded by a group of excessively lovely maidens.

  • Any result obtained through the execution of the Commissioned Business shall belong to each party hereto.

  • "Which translation is better?" "It's hard to tell, they're both natural translations."

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