Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

例: example, custom

Also: usage, precedent

JLPT N38 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 列 gives the sound

8 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

レイrei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 例れいinstance, example, case
  • 例題れいだいexample, exercise
  • 例文れいぶんmodel/example sentence
  • 例外れいがいexception
  • 例年れいねんevery year, annually
  • 実例じつれいexample, illustration, instance
  • 条例じょうれいregulations, rules, laws
  • 前例ぜんれいprecedence
  • 恒例こうれいestablished practice, custom
  • 比例するひれいするbe proportional, correlate

たとえるtatoeru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 例えるたとえるliken, use a simile
  • 例えばたとえばfor example

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人, as 亻 (meaning) + 列 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 例 (rev. 92420969), 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.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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列

Also built on file (列)

The 列 family reads レツ (retsu); 例 is read レイ.

Also read レイ

19 kanji share this on'yomiAll 19

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
例 example · 亻
vs烈 ardent · 灬
例 has 亻 where 烈 has 灬.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lì

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

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

Pinyin lì 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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