Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

儀: ceremony, rule

Also: affair, case, a matter

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 義 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ギgi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 儀ぎceremony
  • 葬儀そうぎfuneral; funeral service
  • 儀式ぎしきceremony; rite; ritual
  • 儀礼ぎれいcourtesy; etiquette; formality
  • 礼儀れいぎmanners; courtesy; etiquette
  • 祝儀しゅうぎcelebration; celebratory event
  • 行儀ぎょうぎmanners; behavior; behaviour
  • お辞儀おじぎbow; bowing

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
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)

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義

Also built on righteousness (義)

儀 takes the 義 family's reading, ギ (gi).

Also read ギ

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
儀 ceremony · 亻
vs犠 sacrifice · 牛
儀 has 亻 where 犠 has 牛.
In ChineseSimplified 仪 · traditional, as in Japanese · yí

Japan keeps the traditional form 儀; mainland China simplifies it to 仪.

Simplified
仪 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
儀 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yí 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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