漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
倖: happiness, luck
JLPT N110 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 幸 is drawn in
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 薄倖はっこうunfortunate; unhappy; ill-fated
- 射倖しゃこうspeculation
- 射倖心しゃこうしんpassion for gambling
Also read しあわせ, さいわい, 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
幸
Also built on happiness (幸)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side倖 happiness · 亻
vs執 tenacious · 丸In ChineseSimplified 幸 · traditional, as in Japanese · xìng
Japan keeps the traditional form 倖; mainland China simplifies it to 幸.
- Simplified
- 幸 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 倖 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xìng 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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