二

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Sino-Xenic (二):
* → Japanese: 二(に) (ni)
* → Korean: 이(二) (i)
* → Vietnamese: nhị (二)

→ Bouyei: ngih

→ Northern Thai: ᨿᩦ᩵

→ Lao: ຍີ່ (nyī)

→ Thai: ยี่ (yîi)

→ Vietnamese: nhì

→ Zhuang: ngeih

Ideogram (指事) - two parallel strokes. Compare with 一, one stroke meaning one, 三, three strokes meaning three, and 亖 (sì), four strokes meaning four. Duplication of 一 (“one”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognate to Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Tangut 𗍫 (*njɨ̱¹), Burmese နှစ် (hnac), and Nuosu ꑍ (nyip). See also: 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis, “second; next”), a cognate within Chinese languages.

Alternative forms: 𠄠 (èr), 𖿣

(handwritten, dated, now informal) An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hanzi; often written at a smaller size when used for this purpose.


匕

In Vietnamese Hán Nôm texts, 匕 is used as an iteration marker.


ヌ

埃ヌ (ai ai, “everyone, everybody”)

𩇢ヌ (xanh xanh, “greenish, bluish”)

𠫾ヌ吏ヌ (đi đi lại lại, “to pace around, to go back and forth”)

Iteration mark, indicating that the previous character should be repeated. The Japanese equivalent is 々.


zpwj snwj

zpwj, dual of zp (“time, occasion”), + snwj (“two”).


dấu nháy

[zəw˧˦ ɲaj˧˦]

[jəw˨˩˦ ɲaj˨˩˦]

(writing, linguistics) the 𖿱, a small diacritic (or signifier) placed to the right of a phonogram in a Nôm text, chiefly to indicate that this character should not be read with its Sino-Vietnamese value, and can also function as iteration mark; like other diacritical marks/signifiers in other Sino-Xenic languages, such as Japanese ゛, its pre-modern usage was very inconsistent