乙

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/乙

Glyph origin
Unknown. Different ancient texts propose different origins. The character should not be confused with 𠃉 > 鳦.
 * – a developing plant ().
 * – the intestine of a fish ().
 * – the gill bone of a fish (Liji Zhengyi (《禮記正義》)

Definitions

 * 1) The second of the ten heavenly stems
 * 2) second; 2; B; II; beta
 * 3)  eth-; ethyl
 * 4)  one
 * 1)  eth-; ethyl
 * 2)  one
 * 1)  one
 * 1)  one

Etymology 2
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Definitions

 * 1)  thank you for the hard work in (doing something)

Etymology 4
From.

Etymology 1
Originally from, arising from the proper noun sense. Appears in texts from at least 833 CE.

Proper noun

 * 1) the second of the ten

Noun

 * 1) something B
 * 2) the second item of any ordered list
 * 3)  one tone lower than the note indicated by
 * 4)  a lower, sonorous and moving sound or tone
 * 5)  in noh musical accompaniment, a specific kind of muffled drum beat played by striking the head of the taiko drum and keeping the mallet pressed against the head
 * 6)  a stupid person, someone who is slow on the uptake
 * 7)  the state or circumstances of a thing
 * 8)  dressing up in an odd fashion

Etymology 2
By extension from the  noun sense. Appears in texts from the late, in the early 1800s.

Adjective

 * 1) out of the ordinary, strange or unusual in an interesting or stylish way
 * 2) strange, odd, weird
 * 3) * (', “Footing It along the Tokaido Road”, or “Shank's Mare”), serial published 1802-1814''':

Etymology 3
Derived as aggressive clipping of. The use of 乙 for the spelling is an example of phonetic.

Etymology 4
Compound of 🇰🇲.

Proper noun

 * 1) the second of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 5


Cognate with the initial oto- in,. Also the first element in.

First attested in the  of 712.

This is distinct from the initial oto- in, which can instead be traced to an earlier woto- root, cognate with.

Noun

 * 1)   a younger sibling
 * 2)   the youngest sibling
 * 3)    a young woman
 * : a stock character in comic interludes, played as a plump and clumsy but earnest young woman
 * 1)    a young woman
 * : a stock character in comic interludes, played as a plump and clumsy but earnest young woman
 * : a stock character in comic interludes, played as a plump and clumsy but earnest young woman

Prefix

 * 1) next, younger, youngest
 * 2) beautiful, beloved, cute, dear
 * 1) beautiful, beloved, cute, dear

Hanja

 * 1) bird

Etymology 1
From a Late Middle Chinese pronunciation of, which lenited coda to.

Usage notes
Generally believed to have been pronounced as, based both on internal evidence and the Chinese etymon. Old Korean and  both merged unconditionally into *-l in Middle Korean, but the two phonograms were consistently distinguished in Old Korean until the late thirteenth century. Because Old Korean reconstructions are conventionally romanized using their Middle Korean reflex, the phonologically erroneous reconstruction *-l is often used as a shorthand.

Usage notes
In Middle and Modern Korean, the allomorph taken by the accusative marker after a vowel may be instead of, especially in formal speech. This is the result of reduplication of the particle and is unlikely to have been present in Old Korean, although the phonologically opaque nature of the orthography makes it difficult to tell for sure.

In "Middle Old Korean", the late first-millennium stage of Korean represented by about a dozen mostly eighth-century poems, the accusative particle was consistently written with the phonogram. has become dominant by the twelve poems of the tenth-century monk Gyunyeo, however, and is virtually not attested at all by the second millennium. There seems to be no semantic difference involved. Whether this represents a phonetic shift or simply a change in orthographic practice is unknown, although and  had differing Middle Chinese initials.