而
← 125 Radical 126 (U+2F7D) 127 →
而 (U+800C) "and, but"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	ér
Bopomofo:	ㄦˊ
Wade–Giles:	erh2
Cantonese Yale:	yi4
Jyutping:	ji4
JapaneseKana:	ジ ji /guitar ニ (on'yomi) しこう-して shikō-shite / しか-して shika-shite / なんじ nanji (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	이 i
Names
Japanese name(s):	しこうして shikōshite しかして shikashite
Hangul:	말 이을 mal ieul
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Radical 126 orradical and (而部) meaning"and" or"but" is one of the 29Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

而 is also the 127 indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.

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• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987).Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York:Abbeville Press.ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009)."Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets"(PDF).CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.).Sebastopol, Calif.:O'Reilly Media.ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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