乙 the latter, duplicate, strange, witty, fishhook radical (no. 5) 1 strokes jōyō, taught in secondary school old JLPT 1 #1841 in newspapers Readings Onオツ、イツ Kunおと-、きのと In Chinese 乙 Words written with it 早乙女 さおとめ young female rice planter 乙 おつ (the) second (party, rank, etc.) N1 乙女 おとめ (young) girl N1 甲乙 こうおつ first and second