Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

俺: I, myself

N1 (our estimate)10 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 奄 is drawn in

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

おれore · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 俺おれI; me
  • 俺らおれらwe; us
  • 俺達おれたちwe; us

Also read エン, われ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · ǎn

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

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

Pinyin ǎn 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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