漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
展: unfold, expand
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
尸 carries the meaning · 廾 is drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
テンten · on'yomi · in compounds
- 展覧会てんらんかいexhibition
- 展望てんぼうview, outlook
- 個展こてんone person exhibition
- 展開するてんかいするdevelop
- 展示するてんじするexhibit, display
- 発展するはってんするdevelop, grow
- 進展するしんてんするprogress [v.i.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)尸 (meaning) + 𧝑 (sound)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 尸 + abbreviated phonetic 𧝑, which has a variant 𧝣; the original version is 㞡.
Source: Wiktionary, 展 (rev. 92470623), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lie down and cover up! This radical has two lives: it can represent the stillness of a body or the protection of a roof.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read テン
12 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhǎn
Same form: 展 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 展 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 展 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhǎn 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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