Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

席: seat, mat

Also: occasion, place

JLPT N310 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

巾 carries the meaning · 广 and 廿 give the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 出席するしゅっせきするattend [v.i.]
  • 欠席するけっせきするbe absent
  • 座席ざせきseat
  • 議席ぎせきparliamentary seat
  • 指定席していせきreserved seat
  • 自由席じゆうせきunreserved seat
  • 即席ラーメンそくせきラーメンinstant noodles

Also read むしろ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)庶 (sound) + 巾 (meaning)

A woven mat with ornament. Later, a phonetic 石 was added and the image of the mat corrupted into 巾 (“cloth”).

Source: Wiktionary, 席 (rev. 92200394), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Fresh from the loom! This radical represents the soft, woven materials we use every day—from a simple "towel" to a grand "banner" carried into battle.”
More in the 巾 cloth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
广

Also built on slant roof (广)

All 25
廿

Also built on 廿

巾

Also built on cloth (巾)

All 15

Also read セキ

22 kanji share this on'yomiAll 22

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
席 seat · 巾
vs度 degrees · 又
席 has 巾 where 度 has 又.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xí

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

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

Pinyin xí 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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