Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji

匿: hide, shelter

Also: shield

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

匸 carries the meaning · 若 is drawn in

10 strokes
  • Bronze · Zhou
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Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

トクtoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 匿名とくめいanonymity; using an assumed name
  • 隠匿いんとくconcealment (esp. of wrongdoings or…
  • 秘匿ひとくhiding; concealment

Also read かくまう, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)匸 to conceal (meaning) + 若 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 匿 (rev. 92200040), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Box (匚) + young/wheat (若). To place something fragile (like young sprouts) inside a "box" to keep them "hidden" and protected from harm.”
From the 匚 box story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
匸

Also built on 匸

若

Also built on young (若)

Also read トク

8 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · nì

Same form: 匿 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
匿 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
匿 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin nì 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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