Kanji Kaisen

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既: previously, already

Also: long ago

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

艮 carries the meaning · 旡 carries meaning and sound

10 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

キki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 既存きそんexisting
  • 既成きせいestablished; existing; accomplished
  • 既婚きこん
  • 既定きていestablished; fixed; prearranged
  • 既製きせいready-made; off the shelf
  • 既得権きとくけんvested rights
  • 既成事実きせいじじつestablished fact; fait accompli

すでにsudeni · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 既にすでにalready

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Know your limits! This radical represents the physical and conceptual boundaries that define our experience.”
More in the 艮 boundary story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艮

Also built on boundary (艮)

All 12

既 gives its sound to

The family reading is ガイ (gai). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read キ

55 kanji share this on'yomiAll 55
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jì

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

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

Pinyin jì 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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