漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
域: range, region
Also: limits, stage, level
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 土earth(meaning)
- 或(sound)
土 carries the meaning · 或 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
イキiki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 地域ちいきarea, region
- 水域すいいきwaters, water area
- 区域くいきboundary, zone, territory
- 海域かいいきarea of ocean
- 全域ぜんいきthe whole area
- 聖域せいいきsacred precincts
- 領域りょういきarea, domain, territory, field
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)土 (meaning) + 或 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 域 (rev. 92200217), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a cross planted firmly in the ground—that's 土! It shows a stake or a seedling marking the earth, reminding us of farming, construction, and the solid foundation upon which we build our lives and cities.”
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域 range · 土
vs惑 beguile · 心In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yù
Same form: 域 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 域 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 域 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yù 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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