漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
更: grow late, night watch
Also: sit up late, of course, renew, renovate, again, more and more, further
JLPT N37 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 一one(meaning)
- 日sun(meaning)
- 乂(form)
一 and 日 carry the meaning · 乂 is drawn in
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 更衣室こういしつlocker room, changing room
- 更生するこうせいするrehabilitate, regenerate
- 更新するこうしんするrenew, update
- 変更するへんこうするchange, modify, alter
さらsara · kun'yomi · on its own
- 尚更なおさらall the more, still less
- 今更いまさらat this late time
さらにsarani · kun'yomi
- 更にさらにfurthermore, again, more
ふけるfukeru · kun'yomi
- 更けるふけるget late (time, season) [v.i.]
ふかすfukasu · kun'yomi
- 更かすふかすstay up late [v.t.]
- 夜更かしよふかしstaying up late
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side更 grow late · 日 + 乂
vs百 hundred · 白In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gèng
Same form: 更 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 更 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 更 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gèng 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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