Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

偶: accidentally, even number

Also: couple, man & wife, same kind

JLPT N311 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 禺 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

グウguu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 偶数ぐうすうeven number
  • 偶像ぐうぞうidol, icon, image
  • 偶然ぐうぜんfortuity, chance, accident
  • 配偶者はいぐうしゃspouse
  • 偶発的なぐうはつてきなaccidental, incidental
  • 偶発ぐうはつsudden outbreak; accidental; incidental

Also read たま, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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禺

Also built on 禺

偶 takes the 禺 family's reading, グウ (guu).

Also read グウ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
偶 accidentally · 亻
vs隅 corner · ⻖
偶 has 亻 where 隅 has ⻖.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · ǒu

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

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

Pinyin ǒu 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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