The kanji 乙: meaning, readings and stroke order

乙

Meaning: second
On reading: オツ otsu
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 1
Radical: 乙 second
Level: Level 8 · the last years of junior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: thứ hai (ất) (ất)
Japanese: にばんめ。
Korean: 둘째, 을 (을)
Chinese: 乙、第二

Readings, words and example sentences

オツ otsu · on reading · less common

甲こう乙おつ
first and second; which is better
二つの作品に 甲こう乙おつはつけられません。
We can't say which of the two works is better.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.