漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
区: ward, district
JLPT N24 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 匸(meaning)
- 乂(form)
匸 carries the meaning · 乂 is drawn in
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
クku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 区くward, district, section
- 東京都23区とうきょうと23くTokyo metro area, 23 wards
- 区域くいきlimits, boundary, domain, zone
- 区間くかんsection
- 区立くりつward run, ward operated
- 区役所くやくしょward office, council
- 地区ちくdistrict, section, sector
- 学区がっくschool district
- 選挙区せんきょくelectoral district, precinct
- 新宿区しんじゅくくShinjuku ward
- 区別するくべつするdistinguish, differentiate
- 区切るくぎるpunctuate, cut off, mark off
Also read オウ, コウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)匸 + 品
Source: Wiktionary, 區 (rev. 93586197), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Put it safely in the box! This radical represents a container designed to keep its contents secure and out of the way.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
匸
Also built on 匸
区 gives its sound to
The family reading is オウ (ou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side区 ward · 乂
vs匹 equal · 儿In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 區 · qū
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 区. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 區.
- Simplified
- 区 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 區 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qū 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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