Character · Numbers
二
にと nitoにちょう nichōにど nidoにかい nikai
two
Composition
Origin
Two stacked horizontal strokes write the number two.
In the thoughts
- 二兎nitotwo hares
- 二鳥nichōtwo birds
- 二度nidotwice
- 二階nikaisecond floor
- 二軒nikentwo (buildings)
- 不二FujiMount Fuji
- 二人ninintwo people
Proverbs carrying this character
- 040 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず He who chases two hares catches neither.
- 069 一石二鳥 One stone, two birds.
- 086 二度あることは三度ある What happens twice will happen three times.
- 143 二階から目薬 Eye drops from the second floor.
- 225 五月雨や大河を前に家二軒 June rains — facing the swollen river, two houses.
- 228 不二ひとつうづみ残して若葉かな The young leaves have buried everything — except, alone, Mount Fuji.
- 253 二人三脚 Two people, three legs.