Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home

図: map, drawing

Also: plan, extraordinary, audacious

JLPT N47 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

囗 carries the meaning · ⺍ and 乂 are drawn in

7 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

ズzu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 地図ちずmap
  • 図面ずめんplan
  • 設計図せっけいずblueprint

トto · on'yomi

  • 意図するいとするintend
  • 図書室としょしつlibrary room
  • 図書館としょかんlibrary

はかるhakaru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 図るはかるplot, attempt

Also read え, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)囗 walled city + 啚

Source: Wiktionary, 圖 (rev. 90040560), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Enclosure (囗) + elements/dots = information and shapes gathered and contained within a frame for study and direction.”
From the 囗 enclosure story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
囗

Also built on enclosure (囗)

All 11
⺍

Also built on katakana Tsu (⺍)

All 9
乂

Also built on 乂

Also read ズ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ト

14 kanji share this on'yomiAll 14
In ChineseSimplified 图 · traditional 圖 · tú

Three different forms: Japanese 図, simplified 图, traditional 圖.

Simplified
图 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
圖 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tú 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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