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宅: home, house

Also: residence, our house, my husband

JLPT N36 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

宀 carries the meaning · 乇 gives the sound

6 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

タクtaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 帰宅するきたくするreturn home
  • お宅おたくhouse [hon.]
  • 自宅じたくone's home
  • 社宅しゃたくcompany owned house
  • 住宅地じゅうたくちresidential district
  • 宅急便たっきゅうびんexpress home delivery

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)宀 roof (meaning) + 乇 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 宅 (rev. 93646636), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Roof (宀) + a sprouting plant (乇, which also gives the sound "taku"). The place where you come to rest at the end of your journey—your private "home" or residence.”
From the 宀 roof story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
宀

Also built on roof (宀)

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乇

Also built on 乇

宅 takes the 乇 family's reading, タク (taku).

Also read タク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
宅 home · 乇
vs安 relax · 女
宅 has 乇 where 安 has 女.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhái

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

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

Pinyin zhái 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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