漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
批: criticism, strike
JLPT N17 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
扌 carries the meaning · 比 gives the sound
7 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 批評家ひひょうかcritic
- 批判するひはんするcriticize
- 批評するひひょうするreview (a book, etc.)
- 批難するひなんするblame [v.t.]
- 批判的なひはんてきなcritical
- 批判ひはん
- 批准ひじゅんratification
- 批評ひひょう
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)手 hand (meaning) + 比 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 批 (rev. 93466853), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
批 takes the 比 family's reading, ヒ (hi).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side批 criticism · 扌
vs昆 descendants · 日In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pī
Same form: 批 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 批 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 批 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin pī 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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