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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

又: or again, furthermore

Also: on the other hand

JLPT N12 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
2 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Shang
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

またmata · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 又はまたはor; either ... or ...
  • 二又ふたまたseeing two people (i.e. romantically) at…
  • 又隣またどなりsecond door from here

Also read ユウ, また-, またの-, 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

Pictogram (象形)

Source: Wiktionary, 又 (rev. 94589585), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for repetition and the logic of adding another fact or option to a sequence.”
From the 又 again story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read ユウ

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yòu

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

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

Pinyin yòu 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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