漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
忘: forget
JLPT N37 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
心 carries the meaning · 亡 gives the sound
7 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 忘年会ぼうねんかいyear-end party
- 忘却するぼうきゃくするforget
- 忘却ぼうきゃく
わすれるwasureru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 忘れるわすれるforget
- 忘れ物わすれものsomething forgotten
- 物忘れものわすれforgetfulness
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)亡 (sound) + 心 heart (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 忘 (rev. 91756252), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“To perish or disappear (亡) + heart (心) = when an image or a memory fades away and 'dies' out of the heart's reaches.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亡
Also built on deceased (亡)
忘 takes the 亡 family's reading, ボウ (bou).
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wàng
Same form: 忘 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 忘 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 忘 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wàng 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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