漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
料: fee, materials
JLPT N410 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
米 and 斗 carry the meaning
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 料理りょうりcuisine
- 料金りょうきんfee
- 材料ざいりょうingredients, material
- 原料げんりょうraw material
- 無料むりょうfree of charge
- 送料そうりょうshipping fee
- 給料きゅうりょうwages
- 授業料じゅぎょうりょうtuition
- 入場料にゅうじょうりょうadmission fee
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)米 rice + 斗 dipper
To measure; to gauge.
Source: Wiktionary, 料 (rev. 92161428), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Rice (米) + measure/ladle (斗). To carefully "measure" a specific quantity of raw "rice" with a ladle—representing the cost, fee, or the raw "material."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side料 fee · 斗
vs粋 chic · 卆In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · liào
Same form: 料 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 料 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 料 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin liào 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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