漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
字: character, letter
Also: word, section of village
JLPT N46 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
宀 carries the meaning · 子 carries meaning and sound
6 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ジji · on'yomi · in compounds
- 字じcharacter, hand-writing
- 漢字かんじChinese characters
- 文字もじcharacter
- ローマ字ローマじRoman letters (alphabet)
- 数字すうじnumeral
- 名字みょうじfamily name
- 習字しゅうじpenmanship
- 赤字あかじdeficit
あざaza · kun'yomi · on its own
- 大字おおあざlarger section (of village)
Also read あざな, -な, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)宀 roof (meaning) + 子 child (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 字 (rev. 92724726), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A child (子) under a roof (宀) = just as children are born and raised in a house, characters are 'born' and developed within the structures of the mind.”
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 · zì
Same form: 字 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 字 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 字 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zì 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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