漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
央: center, middle
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
丨 and 大 carry the meaning
5 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 中央ちゅうおうcentral, center, middle
- 中央線ちゅうおうせんChuo line (train)
- 中央口ちゅうおうぐちcentral entrance
- 中央集権ちゅうおうしゅうけんcentralized authoritarian rule
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Unclear. Possibly a pictogram (象形) of a man with the neck in shackles – original form of 鞅.
Source: Wiktionary, 央 (rev. 93658639), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stretch out wide! This radical represents anything that is grand, important, or massive in scale.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yāng
Same form: 央 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 央 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 央 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yāng 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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