Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

慮: prudence, thought

Also: concern, consider, deliberate, fear

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

思 carries the meaning · 虍 carries meaning and sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リョryo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 配慮はいりょconsideration; concern; attention
  • 苦慮くりょracking one's brains; worrying oneself
  • 考慮こうりょconsideration; taking into account
  • 憂慮ゆうりょanxiety; concern; fear
  • 遠慮えんりょreserve; constraint; restraint
  • 不慮ふりょunforeseen; unexpected; sudden
  • ご遠慮下さいごえんりょくださいplease refrain (from)

Also read おもんぱくる, おもんぱかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
虍

Also built on 虍

The 虍 family reads コ (ko); 慮 is read リョ.

思

Also built on think (思)

Also read リョ

4 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 虑 · traditional, as in Japanese · lǜ

Japan keeps the traditional form 慮; mainland China simplifies it to 虑.

Simplified
虑 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
慮 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lǜ 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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