漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
個: individual, counter for articles
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 固 gives the sound
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
コko · on'yomi · in compounds
- 一個いっこ1 (piece)
- 何個なんこhow many pieces
- 個室こしつprivate room
- 個人こじんindividual
- 個性こせいpersonality
カka · on'yomi
- 二個所にかしょ2 places
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 固 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 個 (rev. 94586939), 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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 个 · traditional, as in Japanese · gè
Japan keeps the traditional form 個; mainland China simplifies it to 个.
- Simplified
- 个 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 個 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gè 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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