漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
勢: forces, energy
Also: military strength
JLPT N213 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 埶(form)
- 力power(meaning)
力 carries the meaning · 埶 is drawn in
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
セイsei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 勢力せいりょくstrength, force
- 威勢いせいpower, energy
- 態勢たいせいattitude, condition
- 姿勢しせいattitude, posture
- 情勢じょうせいsituation
- 優勢なゆうせいなsuperior
- 豪勢なごうせいなluxurious
ゼイzei · on'yomi
- 大勢おおぜいgreat number of people
いきおいikioi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 勢いいきおいforce
Also read はずみ, 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)埶 (sound) + 力 power (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 勢 (rev. 93486379), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
埶
Also built on 埶
Also read ゼイ
2 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side勢 forces · 力
vs熱 heat · 灬In ChineseSimplified 势 · traditional, as in Japanese · shì
Japan keeps the traditional form 勢; mainland China simplifies it to 势.
- Simplified
- 势 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 勢 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shì 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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