漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
仮: sham, temporary
Also: interim, assumed (name), informal
JLPT N16 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 反 gives the sound
6 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 仮名かなkana (hiragana, katakana)
- 仮面かめんmask, disguise
- 仮説かせつhypothesis, supposition
- 仮装かそうfancy dress, masquerade
- 仮眠するかみんするnap, doze [v.i.]
- 仮定するかていするassume, suppose, presume
ケke · on'yomi
- 仮病けびょうfeigned illness
かりkari · kun'yomi · on its own
- 仮にかりにtemporarily, provisionally
- 仮住まいかりずまいtemporary residence
- 仮契約かりけいやくprovisional contract
Also read かり-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
反
Also built on anti- (反)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side仮 sham · 亻
vs坂 slope · 土In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 假 · jiǎ
仮 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 假 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 假 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 假 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiǎ 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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