漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
具: tool, utensil
Also: means, possess, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture
JLPT N38 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
目 and 八 carry the meaning
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
グgu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 具ぐingredients
- 道具どうぐtool
- 家具かぐfurniture
- 文房具ぶんぼうぐstationery
- 用具ようぐtool
- 具合ぐあいcondition [n.]
- 具体的なぐたいてきなconcrete [adj.]
- 具備するぐびするbe furnished/equipped with [v.t.]
Also read そなえる, つぶさに, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Split it right down the middle! This radical carries the energy of division and the clarity of separation.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jù
Same form: 具 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 具 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 具 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jù 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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