I cannot find the kanji for hito, as in the name Hirohito, in my Modern
Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson). When I
searched online I found that the hito was shown as a four stroke kanji,
written as nimben and two horizontal strokes similar to the number two. I
searched with the nimben and rod radicals with no success. Can someone help me
out here?
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meaning radicals
Kanji for Hirohito
There is 仁, which fits all of your descriptions. You wouldn't have found it
with the rod radical, because the rod is a vertical line. Most digital
dictionaries have a search function by stroke number as well (or at least
order the results by stroke number), which would have helped. Plus [二]{に} is
actually a traditional radical.

My dictionary gives at least the following combinations for Hirohito

> 郭人, 寛人, 寛仁, 宏人, 宏仁, 宏斉, 広人, 広仁, 弘人, 弘仁, 浩人, 浩仁, 祥仁, 仁人, 大仁, 博人, 博仁, 祐人, 裕人,
> 裕仁, 洋人, 煕人, 洋仁, 皓人
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