漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
接: touch, contact
Also: adjoin, piece together
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 扌hand(meaning)
- 妾(sound)
扌 carries the meaning · 妾 gives the sound
11 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
セツsetsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 接点せってんpoint of contact
- 直接ちょくせつdirect
- 予防接種よぼうせっしゅvaccination
- 間接的なかんせつてきなindirect
- 接するせっするcome in contact with, attend
- 接続するせつぞくするconnect
- 接近するせっきんするapproach
- 面接するめんせつするinterview
つぐtsugu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 接ぐつぐjoin [v.t.]
Also read ショウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)手, as 扌 (meaning) + 妾 (sound)
To receive (in the hand).
Source: Wiktionary, 接 (rev. 91674376), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Hand (扌) + daughter-in-law (妾/子). It originally related to the "hand" reaching out to a "woman/child" to join a family through marriage—meaning any act of contact.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read セツ
11 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiē
Same form: 接 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 接 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 接 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiē 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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