漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
冊: tome, counter for books
Also: volume
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
冂 carries the meaning · 廾 is drawn in
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
サツsatsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 一冊いっさつone (bound object)
- 冊数さっすうnumber of bound things
- 別冊べっさつextra issue
- 冊さつcounter for books
- 冊子さっしbook; booklet; story book
- 小冊子しょうさっしbooklet; pamphlet
サクsaku · on'yomi
- 短冊たんざくsmall vertical card for poem
Also read ふみ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Keep it within the borders! This radical represents the lines that separate what is "inside" from what is "outside."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read サツ
9 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side冊 tome · 冂
vs井 well · 二In ChineseSimplified 册 · traditional, as in Japanese · cè
Japan keeps the traditional form 冊; mainland China simplifies it to 册.
- Simplified
- 册 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 冊 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cè 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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