Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

伎: deed, skill

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 支 is drawn in

6 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ギgi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 伎楽ぎがくgigaku (genre of masked drama-dance…
  • 伎芸ぎげいperforming art

キki · on'yomi

  • 歌舞伎かぶきkabuki

Also read わざ, わざおぎ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
伎 deed · 亻
vs岐 branch off · 山
伎 has 亻 where 岐 has 山.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jì

Same form: 伎 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
伎 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
伎 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jì 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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