漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
午: noon, sign of the horse
Also: 11AM-1PM, seventh sign of Chinese zodiac
JLPT N54 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
丿 carries the meaning · 干 is drawn in
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ゴgo · on'yomi · in compounds
- 午前ごぜんmorning
- 午後ごごafternoon
- 正午しょうごnoon
- 午前中ごぜんちゅうin the morning; during the morning
- 端午たんごBoys' Day celebration (May 5)
うまuma · kun'yomi · on its own
- 午うまthe Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese…
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A pestle (now written 杵). Unrelated to 干.
Source: Wiktionary, 午 (rev. 92623713), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Reach the finish line! This radical represents the number ten and the profound sense of arrival and completeness it brings.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wǔ
Same form: 午 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 午 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 午 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wǔ 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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