漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
協: co-, cooperation
JLPT N28 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 十ten(meaning)
- 劦(sound)
十 carries the meaning · 劦 gives the sound
8 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 協力するきょうりょくするcooperate
- 協調するきょうちょうするcooperate
- 協議するきょうぎするdiscuss, negotiate
- 妥協するだきょうするcompromise
- 協会きょうかいassociation
- 協定きょうていpact, agreement
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)十 (sound) + 劦 to collaborate (sound)
A variant form of 劦 with a phonetic 十 added.
Source: Wiktionary, 協 (rev. 89548859), 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side協 co- · 十
vs脅 threaten · 月In ChineseSimplified 协 · traditional, as in Japanese · xié
Japan keeps the traditional form 協; mainland China simplifies it to 协.
- Simplified
- 协 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 協 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xié 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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