Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

侵: encroach, invade

Also: raid, trespass, violate

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · ⺕, 冖 and 又 are drawn in

9 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 侵略しんりゃくinvasion (e.g. of a country); raid
  • 侵害しんがいinfringement; violation; invasion
  • 侵攻しんこうinvasion
  • 侵入しんにゅうinvasion; incursion; raid
  • 侵犯しんぱんviolation (of foreign territory, rights…
  • 不可侵ふかしんinviolability; nonaggression; sacredness

おかすokasu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 侵すおかすto invade; to raid

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
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)

All 103
⺕

Also built on ⺕

15 in all
冖

Also built on cover (冖)

All 21
又

Also built on again (又)

All 20

Also read シン

38 kanji share this on'yomiAll 38

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
侵 encroach · 亻
vs浸 immersed · 氵
侵 has 亻 where 浸 has 氵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qīn

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

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

Pinyin qīn 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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