漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
低: lower, short
Also: humble
JLPT N27 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 亻person(meaning)
- 氐(sound)
亻 carries the meaning · 氐 gives the sound
7 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
テイtei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 低下するていかするdecline [v.i.]
- 低温ていおんlow temperature
- 低気圧ていきあつlow (atmospheric) pressure
- 最低さいていlowest, worst
ひくいhikui · kun'yomi · on its own
- 低いひくいlow
ひくめるhikumeru · kun'yomi
- 低めるひくめるlower [v.t.]
ひくまるhikumaru · kun'yomi
- 低まるひくまるlower [v.i.]
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 man, person, as 亻 (meaning) + 氐 (sound)
A person lowering themselves, bowing.
Source: Wiktionary, 低 (rev. 93870631), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side低 lower · 亻
vs底 bottom · 广In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dī
Same form: 低 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 低 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 低 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dī 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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