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卸: wholesale

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

正 and 卩 carry the meaning · 午 gives the sound

9 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

おろすorosu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 卸すおろすto sell wholesale

おろしoroshi · kun'yomi

  • 卸おろしwholesale
  • 卸売おろしうりwholesale; wholesaling
  • 卸売物価おろしうりぶっかwholesale price
  • 卸売市場おろしうりしじょうwholesale market
  • 卸値おろしねwholesale price

Also read シャ, おろし, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Someone is kneeling before a high authority! This radical represents respect, social standing, and the official stamps that mark a person's role in society.”
More in the 卩 seal story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
午

Also built on noon (午)

The 午 sound family doesn't share one reading.

正

Also built on correct (正)

卩

Also built on seal (卩)

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Also read シャ

18 kanji share this on'yomiAll 18

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
卸 wholesale · 午 + 卩
vs政 politics · 攵
卸 has 午 + 卩 where 政 has 攵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xiè

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

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

Pinyin xiè 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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