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戚: grieve, relatives

N1 (our estimate)11 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
  • 戊(form)
  • 尗(form)

戊 and 尗 are drawn in

11 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

セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 親戚しんせきrelative; relation; kin
  • 姻戚いんせきin-law; relative by marriage
  • 遠戚えんせきdistant relative

Also read ソク, いたむ, うれえる, みうち, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Arm yourself! The long slanting stroke is the shaft, the short horizontal stroke is the blade, and the little dot is the tassel tied near the top.”
More in the 戈 spear story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
戊

Also built on 戊

尗

Also built on 尗

Also read ソク

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Also read セキ

22 kanji share this on'yomiAll 22
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qī

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

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

Pinyin qī 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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