漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
傘: umbrella
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 人person(meaning)
- 从(form)
- 十ten(form)
人 carries the meaning · 从 and 十 are drawn in
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
サンsan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 傘下さんかaffiliated with; under jurisdiction of
- 落下傘らっかさんparachute
かさkasa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 傘かさumbrella; parasol
- 日傘ひがさparasol (esp. one carried in the hand)
- 核の傘かくのかさnuclear umbrella
- 置き傘おきがさspare umbrella kept (at work) in the event…
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Pictographic representation of an umbrella.
Source: Wiktionary, 傘 (rev. 93835781), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Person roof (𠆢) + multiple people (人人) + a stem. A clear pictograph of an "umbrella"—a portable "roof" carried by a person to stay dry in the rain.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
从
Also built on 从
In ChineseSimplified 伞 · traditional, as in Japanese · sǎn
Japan keeps the traditional form 傘; mainland China simplifies it to 伞.
- Simplified
- 伞 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 傘 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sǎn 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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