Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

僅: a wee bit

N1 (our estimate)12 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 艹 and 三 are drawn in

13 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

キンkin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 僅差きんさnarrow margin; slim margin
  • 僅少きんしょうa little; a few; small

わずかwazuka · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 僅かわずかa little; a few; small

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

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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.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

All 103
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

All 74
三

Also built on three (三)

Also read キン

25 kanji share this on'yomiAll 25

Also read ゴン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
僅 a wee bit · 亻
vs菫 the violet
僅 adds 亻.
In ChineseSimplified 仅 · traditional, as in Japanese · jǐn

Japan keeps the traditional form 僅; mainland China simplifies it to 仅.

Simplified
仅 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
僅 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jǐn 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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