漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
処: dispose, manage
Also: deal with, sentence, condemn, act, behave, place
JLPT N35 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
夂 and 几 carry the meaning
5 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ショsho · on'yomi · in compounds
- 処女しょじょvirgin, maiden
- 処方箋しょほうせんprescription
- 処置するしょちするtreat [v.t.]
- 処罰するしょばつするpunish
- 処刑するしょけいするexecute
- 処分するしょぶんするdispose of, deal with, punish
- 処理するしょりするprocess, deal with
- 対処するたいしょするdeal with, cope
- 善処するぜんしょするhandle carefully, use discretion
Also read ところ, -こ, おる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)虍 (sound) + 夂 (meaning) + 几 table (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 處 (rev. 93634493), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Walking (夂) + table/stool (几). Originally referred to walking to a specific "table" or "place" to "deal with" a matter or manage an affair.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side処 dispose · 几
vs冬 winter · 冫In ChineseSimplified 处 · traditional 處 · chù
Three different forms: Japanese 処, simplified 处, traditional 處.
- Simplified
- 处 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 處 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chù 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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