漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
企: undertake, scheme
Also: design, attempt, plan
JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
人 carries the meaning · 止 is drawn in
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 企業きぎょうenterprise
- 企画きかくproject [n.]
- 大企業だいきぎょうlarge company; large enterprise
- 経企庁けいきちょうEconomic Planning Agency (1955-2001)
- 企業家きぎょうかindustrialist; entrepreneur
くわだてるkuwadateru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 企てくわだてplot [n.]
- 企てるくわだてるplot [v.t.]
たくらむtakuramu · kun'yomi
- 企みたくらみplot; scheme; trick
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
人 person + 止 foot
A person standing on tiptoes.
Source: Wiktionary, 企 (rev. 93779711), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qǐ
Same form: 企 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 企 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 企 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qǐ 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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