Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

入: enter, insert

JLPT N52 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
2 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Six readings, and the words that use each

ニュウnyuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 収入しゅうにゅうincome
  • 入学するにゅうがくするentry school or university
  • 入国するにゅうこくするentry a country
  • 輸入するゆにゅうするimport

いるiru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 気に入るきにいるbe pleased with, come to like

-いり-iri · kun'yomi

  • 入り口いりぐちentrance
  • 仲間入りなかまいりjoin a group

いれるireru · kun'yomi

  • 入れるいれるput in, let in [v.t.]

-いれ-ire · kun'yomi

  • 入れ物いれものcontainer

はいるhairu · kun'yomi

  • 入るはいるenter, get in [v.i.]

Also read ジュ, -いる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogram (指事)

An arrowhead indicating "to enter".

Source: Wiktionary, 入 (rev. 93139744), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for the action of entering a room, finishing a task, or inserting a card into a slot.”
From the 入 to enter story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read ニュウ

2 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ジュ

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
入 enter
vs八 eight
Compare the two shapes stroke by stroke.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · rù

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

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

Pinyin rù 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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