Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

敏: cleverness, agile

Also: alert

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

攵 carries the meaning · 毎 is drawn in

10 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

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

One reading, and the words that use it

ビンbin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 敏感びんかん
  • 過敏かびんnervousness; oversensitivity
  • 機敏きびんquick; prompt; alert
  • 鋭敏えいびんsharp (eyes, ears, etc.); keen; acute
  • 敏速びんそくquickness; agility; activity
  • 敏腕びんわんability; capability; competence

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

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Whack! A hand with a stick is ready to take command.”
More in the 攵 to strike story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
毎

Also built on every (毎)

攵

Also built on to strike (攵)

All 26

Also read ビン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
敏 cleverness · 攵
vs梅 plum · 木
敏 has 攵 where 梅 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · mǐn

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

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

Pinyin mǐn 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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