Radical 二

2 strokes

one 一 (1) + one 一 (1) = two 二

This is a composite character, made up of “one” and “one”. hence there is an equation, and the story illustrates it. The second half of the story, separated by a slash “/”, gives you the pronunciation. The soundword is “earth” and there is a dwarf in the story, so the pronunciation is èr.

As mentioned above, a biplane will substitute for “two” in future stories.

To write this character, write the top stroke before the bottom stroke, writing each stroke left to right. Note that the bottom stroke is slightly longer than the top one.

There is another character for “two” (Character 222), which we’ll meet later.

The zoo had one unicorn so bought another unicorn to get a breeding pair. however they failed to check the gender of the new one so ended up with two of the same sex! / The dwarf accountant is furious because the new unicorn had cost the earth.