漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
劾: censure, criminal investigation
JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
力 carries the meaning · 亥 gives the sound
8 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ガイgai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 弾劾だんがいimpeachment
- 劾奏がいそうreport of an official's offence to the…
- 弾劾裁判所だんがいさいばんしょ(Japanese) Court of Impeachment
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flex your arm and feel the power! That's 力, representing the raw muscle and effort required to change the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亥
Also built on sign of the hog (亥)
劾 takes the 亥 family's reading, ガイ (gai).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side劾 censure · 力
vs刻 engrave · 刂In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hé
Same form: 劾 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 劾 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 劾 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hé 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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