Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes

契: pledge, promise

Also: vow

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

大 carries the meaning · 龶 and 刀 are drawn in

9 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone, bronze and 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

ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 契約けいやくcontract; compact; agreement
  • 契機けいきopportunity; chance
  • 契約書けいやくしょ(written) contract; agreement

Also read ちぎる, 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

“Stretch out wide! This radical represents anything that is grand, important, or massive in scale.”
More in the 大 large story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
龶

Also built on 龶

刀

Also built on sword (刀)

All 9
大

Also built on large (大)

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契 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ケイ

41 kanji share this on'yomiAll 41
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qì

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

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

Pinyin qì 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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