漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
崎: promontory, cape
Also: spit
JLPT N111 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
山 carries the meaning · 奇 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
さきsaki · kun'yomi · on its own
- 崎さきsmall peninsula; cape; promontory
- 川崎かわさきKawasaki (city)
- 長崎ながさきNagasaki (city, prefecture)
Also read キ, さい, みさき, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)山 mountain (meaning) + 奇 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 崎 (rev. 93447986), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand tall and look at the horizon! Three peaks reach for the clouds in perfect harmony.”
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)
崎 takes the 奇 family's reading, キ (ki).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side崎 promontory · 山
vs寄 draw near · 宀In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qí
Same form: 崎 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 崎 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 崎 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qí 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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