Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

映: reflect, reflection

Also: projection

JLPT N49 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

日 carries the meaning · 央 gives the sound

9 strokes

Five readings, and the words that use each

エイei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 映画えいがmovie
  • 映画館えいがかんmovie theater
  • 反映するはんえいするreflect
  • 上映するじょうえいするshow a movie

うつるutsuru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 映るうつるbe reflected [v.i.]

うつすutsusu · kun'yomi

  • 映すうつすproject [v.t.]

はえるhaeru · kun'yomi

  • 映えるはえるshine, look pretty

-ばえ-bae · kun'yomi

  • 夕映えゆうばえsunset glow

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)日 sun (meaning) + 央 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 映 (rev. 89732454), CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Also built on sun (日)

All 70
央

Also built on center (央)

映 takes the 央 family's reading, エイ (ei).

Also read エイ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
映 reflect · 央
vs春 springtime · 𡗗
映 has 央 where 春 has 𡗗.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yìng

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

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

Pinyin yìng 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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