漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
恒: constancy, always
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
忄 carries the meaning · 亘 gives the sound
9 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
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 恒例こうれい
- 恒久こうきゅう
- 恒常こうじょうconstancy; permanence
- 恒産こうさんfixed property; real property
- 恒星こうせいstar
Also read つね, つねに, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Feel the beat! When the heart "stands up" on the left side of a kanji, it brings the intense energy of emotion and thought.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side恒 constancy · 忄
vs宣 proclaim · 宀In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 恆 · héng
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 恒. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 恆.
- Simplified
- 恒 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 恆 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin héng 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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