漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
侍: waiter, samurai
Also: wait upon, serve
JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 寺 gives the sound
8 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ジji · on'yomi · in compounds
- 侍従じじゅうchamberlain
- 侍医じいcourt physician
- 侍女じじょlady attendant; female servant; lady's maid
さむらいsamurai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 侍さむらいwarrior (esp. of military retainers of…
Also read シ, はべる, 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
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侍 waiter · 亻
vs待 wait · 彳In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shì
Same form: 侍 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 侍 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 侍 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shì 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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