漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
寄: draw near, stop in
Also: bring near, gather, collect, send, forward
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
宀 carries the meaning · 奇 gives the sound
11 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 寄付するきふするdonate
- 寄生するきせいするbecome parasitic
- 寄港するきこうするstop at a port
よるyoru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 寄るよるdrop in [v.i.]
-より-yori · kun'yomi
- 年寄りとしよりelderly people
よせるyoseru · kun'yomi
- 寄せるよせるgather [v.t.]
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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
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
奇
Also built on strange (奇)
寄 takes the 奇 family's reading, キ (ki).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side寄 draw near · 宀
vs崎 promontory · 山In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jì
Same form: 寄 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 寄 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 寄 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jì 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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