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宜: best regards, good

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

宀 carries the meaning · 且 is drawn in

8 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

ギgi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 便宜べんぎconvenience; accommodation; advantage
  • 適宜てきぎsuitable; appropriate; fitting
  • 時宜じぎright time; appropriate time

よろしいyoroshii · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 宜しいよろしいgood; OK; all right

よろしくyoroshiku · kun'yomi

  • 宜しくよろしくwell; properly; suitably

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
宜 best regards · 宀
vs阻 thwart · ⻖
宜 has 宀 where 阻 has ⻖.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yí

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

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

Pinyin yí 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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