漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
側: side, lean
Also: oppose, regret
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 則 gives the sound
11 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソクsoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 側面そくめんside
- 側近そっきんclose advisor
がわgawa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 東側ひがしがわeast side
- 右側みぎがわright side
- 反対側はんたいがわopposite side
- 内側うちがわinside
Also read かわ, そば, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人, as 亻 (meaning) + 則 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 側 (rev. 92691333), 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 侧 · traditional, as in Japanese · cè
Japan keeps the traditional form 側; mainland China simplifies it to 侧.
- Simplified
- 侧 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 側 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cè 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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