Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

俳: haiku, actor

JLPT N110 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 非 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ハイhai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 俳句はいくhaiku poetry
  • 俳人はいじんhaiku poet
  • 俳壇はいだんthe world of the haiku
  • 俳優はいゆうactor, actress
  • 俳諧はいかいhaikai (collective name for haiku, haibun…

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“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
非

Also built on injustice (非)

All 7

The 非 family reads ヒ (hi); 俳 is read ハイ.

Also read ハイ

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
俳 haiku · 亻
vs排 repudiate · 扌
俳 has 亻 where 排 has 扌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pái

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

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

Pinyin pái 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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