Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

暫: temporarily, a while

Also: moment, long time

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

日 carries the meaning · 斬 gives the sound

15 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

ザンzan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 暫定ざんていprovisional; temporary; tentative
  • 暫時ざんじshort while

しばらくshibaraku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 暫くしばらくfor a moment; for a minute

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

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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.”
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
斬

Also built on beheading (斬)

暫 takes the 斬 family's reading, ザン (zan).

日

Also built on sun (日)

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Also read ザン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
暫 temporarily · 日
vs漸 steadily · 氵
暫 has 日 where 漸 has 氵.
In ChineseSimplified 暂 · traditional, as in Japanese · zàn

Japan keeps the traditional form 暫; mainland China simplifies it to 暂.

Simplified
暂 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
暫 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zàn 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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