漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
七: seven
JLPT N52 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
一 and 乙 carry the meaning
2 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
シチshichi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 七時しちじ7 o'clock
- 十七じゅうしち/じゅうなな17
- 七五三しちごさんfestival for children aged 7, 5 & 3
ななnana · kun'yomi · on its own
- 七回ななかい7 times
- 七週間ななしゅうかん7 weeks
- 七才ななさい7 years old
ななつnanatsu · kun'yomi
- 七つななつ7 (objects)
なのnano · kun'yomi
- 七日なのか7 days, 7th of the month
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A vertical stroke and a horizontal stroke bisecting each other – original character of 切 (“to cut”).
Source: Wiktionary, 七 (rev. 92722445), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Everything begins with one. This radical is the first strike of the brush that defines the horizon, the first step of a long journey, and the very foundation of the mathematical world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read シチ
2 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qī
Same form: 七 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 七 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 七 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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