漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
会: meeting, meet
Also: party, association, interview, join
JLPT N46 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 人person(meaning)
- 云(form)
人 carries the meaning · 云 is drawn in
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 会話かいわconversation
- 会議かいぎconference
- 会社かいしゃcompany
- 会社員かいしゃいんcompany employee
- 会計士かいけいしaccountant
- 忘年会ぼうねんかいyear-end party
- 国会こっかいparliament
- 都会とかいcity
- 再会するさいかいするmeet again
エe · on'yomi
- 会釈するえしゃくするnod in greeting
あうau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 会うあうmeet
Also read あわせる, あつまる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)合 to meet (meaning) + 𡆧 (sound)
𡆧 is the original form of 𨭗 (“ironware”).
Source: Wiktionary, 會 (rev. 92707631), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Person roof (𠆢) + clouds/gathering. Imagine many diverse people gathering "under one roof"—the literal definition of a "meeting" or an "assembly."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
云
Also built on 云
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side会 meeting · 人
vs伝 transmit · 亻In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 會 · huì
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 会. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 會.
- Simplified
- 会 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 會 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huì 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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