Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

撮: snapshot, take pictures

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 最 gives the sound

15 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

サツsatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 撮影さつえい
  • 写真撮影しゃしんさつえいphotography; taking photographs
  • 特撮とくさつspecial effects; SFX
  • 特殊撮影とくしゅさつえいspecial effects; SFX

とるtoru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 撮るとるto take (a photograph)

Also read つまむ, -どり, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

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Also read サツ

9 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cuō

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

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

Pinyin cuō 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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