Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

戴: be crowned with, live under (a ruler)

Also: receive

N1 (our estimate)17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

𢦏 and 異 are drawn in

17 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 頂戴ちょうだいreceiving; getting; accepting
  • 戴冠式たいかんしきcoronation ceremony; enthronement

いただくitadaku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 戴きいただきcrown (of head); summit (of mountain); spire

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“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.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
異

Also built on uncommon (異)

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
戴 be crowned with · 𢦏
vs翼 wing · 羽
戴 has 𢦏 where 翼 has 羽.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dài

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

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

Pinyin dài 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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