漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
介: jammed in, shellfish
Also: mediate, concern oneself with
JLPT N24 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
人 carries the meaning · 丿 and 丨 are drawn in
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 介入するかいにゅうするintervene, interfere
- 介抱するかいほうするnurse, look after
- 紹介するしょうかいするintroduce
- 媒介するばいかいするmediate, transmit (disease)
- 仲介するちゅうかいするmediate, act as go-between
- 厄介なやっかいなtroublesome, annoying
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shelter under the roof! This radical looks like a person spreading their arms wide or a simple roof over a home.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side介 jammed in · 丿 + 丨
vs内 inside · 冂In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiè
Same form: 介 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 介 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 介 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiè 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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