漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
昔: once upon a time, antiquity
Also: old times
JLPT N38 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
日 carries the meaning · 廾 is drawn in
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 昔日せきじつold days
シャクshaku · on'yomi
- 今昔物語こんじゃくものがたりTales of past and present
むかしmukashi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 昔むかしolden days, former [n.]
- 昔話むかしばなしfolklore
- 一昔ひとむかしan age (ago); a long time (ago)
- 昔のままむかしのままthe way it was; the way it used be
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The life-giving sun in the sky! This simple box was once a perfect circle, representing the regular rising and setting of the sun that marks the rhythm of our lives.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
昔 gives its sound to
The family reading is シャク (shaku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Also read シャク
10 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xī
Same form: 昔 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 昔 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 昔 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xī 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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