漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
則: rule, law
Also: follow, based on, model after
JLPT N29 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 and 刂 carry the meaning
9 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ソクsoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 規則きそくregulation
- 法則ほうそくlaw, principle (e.g. in physics)
- 原則げんそくprinciple
- 罰則ばっそくpenal regulations
- 会則かいそくsociety or club regulations
- 不規則なふきそくなirregular
- 反則するはんそくするviolate
Also read のっとる, のり, すなわち, 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
“Slice through it! This "standing knife" radical is all about precision and force.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 则 · traditional, as in Japanese · zé
Japan keeps the traditional form 則; mainland China simplifies it to 则.
- Simplified
- 则 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 則 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zé 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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